Media urged not to be used by unscrupulous protesters seeking state handouts

 

 

Finance permanent secretary Prasong Poonthanate has criticized those engaging in sporadic and highly visible protests in an attempt to attract media attention to their efforts to get the 5,000 baht state subsidy.

 

He also said he is of the opinion that some media outlets are unwittingly being used by these protesters, claiming that some have already received the subsidy cash, but are demanding more. He cited the recent case of a taxi driver, who had attempted to scale the perimeter fence of the Finance Ministry as members of the media filmed the incident.

 

The cabbie, identified as Pongpicharn Thanathirapong, was at the Ministry on Thursday to demand that the handout be wired to his account that day, claiming that he had received a text message instructing him to show up at the Ministry file his claim.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/media-urged-not-to-be-used-by-unscrupulous-protesters-seeking-state-handouts/

 

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Media is content hungry.  Coronavirus is big news.  An enormous amount of people have no income.  People who are dependent on a daily wage are without anything.  Put it all together and that is why the media cover anything related.

 

Not only here, in Australia there are daily stories about people who are desperate and turn to the media for exposure.

I thought the unscrupulous were the ones who controlled and issued the state handouts!

Media urged not to be used by unscrupulous protesters, but only to be used by unscrupulous government officials.????????

OK so I this woman didn't commit suicide either ?

They will probably try to demonize the protesters as they usually do.
Funny after they've been in the news they receive the handouts but if they didn't qualify why give it to them?
Of course Civil Servants don't have anything to worry about.
https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/struggling-mother-draws-portrait-of-pm-before-committing-suicide/

 

Edited May 3, 20206 yr by DirtyHarry55

That's it blame the media poor people are getting desperate no tourists or customers  most out of work not every one gets the money so what are they supposed to do  they have no other option as the government does not want to know about the poor with all the money the thai government is supposed to have surely they can loosen up the money tree

They got to make sure they have enough to pay their own wages and bail out companies they may have a vested interest in lol.

So basically don't report these stories because it makes us look bad. 

 

For a country that likes to try and control every aspect of their citizens' lives, they really have no clue who's who and what they do for a living, etc. Handing out 5,000 baht for those who need it really shouldn't be this hard. 

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Media urged not to be used by unscrupulous protesters seeking state handouts

so it's not news worthy ???????

 

Jesus Christ what next - arrest them all

Just another control measure from the control freaks running the country.  This sort of thing will continue until the Thai people get brave enough to turf them out !

4 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Finance permanent secretary Prasong Poonthanate has criticized those engaging in sporadic and highly visible protests in an attempt to attract media attention to their efforts to get the 5,000 baht state subsidy.

Finance permanent secretary Prasong Poonthanate is rewriting Thai dictionaries and replacing the word "desperate" with the word "unscrupulous?"

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Finance permanent secretary Prasong Poonthanate has criticized those engaging in sporadic and highly visible protests in an attempt to attract media attention to their efforts to get the 5,000 baht state subsidy.

He continued: The government is not as thick-skinned to criticism as we thought we were.

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