Reading The Nation makes my day – but there are two problems 

First the language:
The Nation is a news medium for the masses, both native English speakers and the rest of us. A newspaper is also a commercial product which must use a language its customers/readers can understand. This column’s regular contributor Dr Frank offers a good example of how to write if you want to drive away ordinary paying customers like me. My English is good enough to read and listen to English-language news outlets, and I get the message in general. I do not, however, spend time reading The Nation’s good Doctor, which is sad, because he could have something important to say. Luckily not all of The Nation is like that, so I’m still a customer.
Some people use newspapers as a tool to learn English, which is fine and up to them. But the language a newspaper uses must be aimed at the ordinary paying readers if the paper wants to survive. Here is a taste of why I do not read the Doc: “egregious”, “pernicious”, “redolent”, “blithely”, “venom”, “genuflecting”, “gibbering”, “bereft”, “opprobrium”. When did you other native English speakers last kick your people in the head with verbal bombs like that?
Then comes the problem of where to find The Nation. I am surprised how difficult it is to find kiosks or shops that sell the paper. The few sources I know in Hua Hin, at Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon and Pattaya are normally sold out by noon. That’s not good for your business or for my and others’ habits of sitting down with a good cup of coffee and a newspaper (sometimes with a Cuban cigar, in my case), which makes the day for many of us. Too often I am forced to read the online edition, which does not make my day in the same way! Why so cheap on paper papers?
A Johnsen
Hua Hin