NBTC preparing guidelines for media coverage of sensitive situations

[webfact]

NBTC preparing guidelines for media coverage of sensitive situations

By THE NATION

 

 

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) held a meeting on Tuesday (February 11) with media entrepreneurs, journalists and the press to discuss guidelines for news reporting in sensitive situations, such as the mass shooting incident in Nakhon Ratchasima province last weekend.

 

The meeting was prompted after some news outlets broadcast live footage of officers preparing operations against the suspect who was holed up in the Terminal 21 department store, while the suspect, according to reports, was watching their plans on television.

 

 

Lt-General Pheeraphong Manakit, the NBTC’s director of media content commission, said that journalists must use discretion in reporting news or content that could hinder the operation of officials or could tip-off the suspects.

 

“Furthermore, inappropriate reporting could increase public panic and stress, as well as create misconception about the situation,” he said. “For example, young audiences might perceive the suspect’s actions as bold or heroic depending on how the news is portrayed to them, while being exposed to violent content might affect their thinking and behaviour in the long term.”

 

 

“The NTBC is preparing guidelines for news reporting in sensitive situations to prevent future problems, as well as setting more intensive punishment measures for media that report news inappropriately and jeopardise official’s operations and public safety,” he said.

 

“The punishment will include halting the broadcast immediately as well as other kinds of penalty.”

 

Pheeraphong added that the NBTC will take action against media violating guidelines and will notify the public of subsequent punishment as soon as possible.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30381994

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-02-12

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[newcomer71]

It was Police and Army job to cordon the area, still they blame it on the press... Unbelievable.

[colinneil]

It is the medias job to report things happening.

Now the NBTC are getting their knickers in a knot because the media were reporting events as they happened... WHY?

If the authorities did not want that to happen, then why was there not a secure cordon in place?

[Geoffggi]

Don't report anything that could make us look bad......LOL

[seajae]

have found many thais love to see blood and guts, often when there is an accident the cars and bikes will stop on the road so they can get out/off and go look at it, seems showing this sort of <deleted> happens a lot here where it is usually censored in the west, then again matbe they just dont want people to know what they are doing

[Srikcir]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

the suspect’s actions as bold or heroic depending on how the news is portrayed to them

Like reports on the military's responses to insurgent attacks?

[The Old Bull]

The " Ministry of Truth" is born.

[DrTuner]

Yes, in co-operation with communist Xinhua: https://www.thaienquirer.com/7301/thai-media-is-outsourcing-much-of-its-coronavirus-coverage-to-beijing-and-thats-just-the-start/

 

'The Channel 3 partnership with Xinhua is only the latest of a long string of official partnerships Xinhua has inked with Thai news agencies. Among the 12 known signatories of its news sharing agreement are prominent platforms like Voice Online, Manager Online, Sanook, the Matichon Group (the parent company of Khaosod) and state broadcasting agency NBT.'

 

Going full commie.