Foreign media, royalty and lèse majesté

Nirmal Ghosh, who writes for the Straits Times, has a story on reactions form royalists to their reporting and blaming the foreign media for negative reports on Thailand. The claims that these foreign correspondents are in the pay of Thaksin Shinawatra are mentioned along with comments by the Manager’s Sutin Wannabovorn. The story is at Prachatai, 16 February 2009: “Foreign media facing hostility from royalists who accuse them of unfair reporting”

A related article, from a few weeks ago, by Chang Noi, can also be usefully read in the context of the Ghosh report. See The Nation, 5 January 2009: “The international media and the missing parts of the puzzle”

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