Look outside economics. From this brief overview we can be quite confident that the five ministers mentioned apart from Dr Surakiart will come under some very strong criticism indeed. The language of news stories must be neutral. Opinions are often expressed in news stories, but they come from the people quoted, not from the writer. In fact, you should not be able to determine the writer's opinion in a news story.
Editorials are almost completely different.
The writer s job is to give an opinion. This is done in a number of ways through adjectives and adverbs, through sarcasm and satire, and through very direct criticism or praise. That is one reason editorials can be fun to read. To give you a taste of a typical Bangkok Post editorial, below is the full November 29 Post Opinion that we introduced above. Notice that we have included pictures of the ministers mentioned in the editorial and we have also given you the option of looking up some of the key words.