Thailand's Pixalated News - Why even bother?

[connda]

I was in the kitchen cooking as the wife indulged in her TV addiction.  I haven't watched TV in over a decade other then to glance occasionally at the screen if the wife is watching.  Tonight it's The Pixelated News at 5.  As I'm cooking I'd look at the screen just to see whether or not the video images were blurred out or not. It sort of became a game.  In the 15 minutes I was in the kitchen I'd say that other than the talking heads blabbering the current topic, if there was a video clip being discussed then 95% of the time when I looked up the video or still pictures being discussed were blurred out or pixelated.  I really have to question.  If the subject matter is so disturbing and disgusting - why not change the format of the news show? Either focus on news that can pass the corporate or government censors or just stop providing video and pictures which can't be shown. It's absurd, which is why I stop watching this pablum a whole lot of years ago. 
Really?  Why bother?

[scammed]

11 minutes ago, connda said:

I was in the kitchen cooking as the wife indulged in her TV addiction.  I haven't watched TV in over a decade other then to glance occasionally at the screen if the wife is watching.  Tonight it's The Pixelated News at 5.  As I'm cooking I'd look at the screen just to see whether or not the video images were blurred out or not. It sort of became a game.  In the 15 minutes I was in the kitchen I'd say that other than the talking heads blabbering the current topic, if there was a video clip being discussed then 95% of the time when I looked up the video or still pictures being discussed were blurred out or pixelated.  I really have to question.  If the subject matter is so disturbing and disgusting - why not change the format of the news show? Either focus on news that can pass the corporate or government censors or just stop providing video and pictures which can't be shown. It's absurd, which is why I stop watching this pablum a whole lot of years ago. 
Really?  Why bother?

i hate it when they do that on topics supposedly pornographic by nature, and i completely agree, why bother ?

[Kwasaki]

From a Thais point of view if you don't like it don't look at it.

[KannikaP]

A bit off topic, but I am sure it happens in Thailand as well as UK. In a phone in or interview, the presenter will say ' David from Manchester bit it's not his real name'. The only people who will know who he is, are people who know him and his voice. Silly.

[Mike Rodik]

were you watching the ROAD KILL show ?

[Golden Triangle]

I understand your view on this, it's strange that the news channels, and TVF will pixelate a close up video or still photo of a dead or dying person but have absolutely no problem showing colour or black & white CCTV of people getting wiped out in road accidents,it's a strange way of thinking they have.

 

Maybe someone here can enlighten us as to the criteria applied for showing pics or videos of motorcyclists and cars getting mangled ?

[digger70]

23 hours ago, connda said:

Tonight it's The Pixelated News at 5.

For sure ,If they Don't want us to See the so Called News  Don't bother to put the news on Air

[Farma]

Meanwhile while watching a Thai movie the alcohol bottle and gun were pixilated but the cocaine the guy was snorting and him snorting it wasn't.

[Golden Triangle]

36 minutes ago, Farma said:

Meanwhile while watching a Thai movie the alcohol bottle and gun were pixilated but the cocaine the guy was snorting and him snorting it wasn't.

Strange priorities ????

[Andycoops]

It's been done for ages and the Thai's are resistant to change and double standards are everywhere as noted above about the cocaine snorting.

[RocketDog]

18 hours ago, Farma said:

Meanwhile while watching a Thai movie the alcohol bottle and gun were pixilated but the cocaine the guy was snorting and him snorting it wasn't.

Maybe you meant any movies/TV shown in Thailand. Most movies from any country are censored that way from my observation.

Cigars, cigarettes, pipes, shot glasses, beer bottles, wine bottles and glasses, along with knives and guns are blurred. 

 

Flying fighters, arrows, and swords on the other hand are not. Reality is shunned and ridiculous fantasy encouraged. 

 

OTOH it's just another mystery of the Kingdom, like the planned moon mission versus the daily road carnage. 

[giddyup]

If a woman shows the merest hint of cleavage, it's pixellated.