Two university faculties oppose taxpayer funding of World Cup 2022 live broadcasts

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The Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University and the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communications at Thammasat University have issued a joint statement opposing a proposal, from the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), seeking the use of 1.6 billion baht from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Research and Development Fund for Public Interest (BTFP) to buy the rights to live broadcasts of World Cup 2022 in Thailand.

 

The NBTC board is scheduled to consider the SAT’s proposal at its meeting on Wednesday.

 

Associate Professor Dr. Preeda Akarachantachote, dean of the Faculty of Communication Arts, said in the joint statement that the use of the fund for World Cup 2022 live broadcasts would be against the objective of the BTFP, because it does not contribute to promoting the development of communications resources, research or development of broadcast media.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/two-university-faculties-oppose-taxpayer-funding-of-world-cup-2022-live-broadcasts/

 

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[RichardColeman]

In my opinion, universities these days are so left wing as to be totally out of touch with reality

[scorecard]

19 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

In my opinion, universities these days are so left wing as to be totally out of touch with reality

Why do you mention left wing in this case?

[thaibeachlovers]

Quite right too. Governments have no business getting involved in commercial sport.

User pays.

[ChrisY1]

Like paying TikTok for viewers entertainment! Just wasteful, face saving spending!

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

Like paying TikTok for viewers entertainment! Just wasteful, face saving spending!

What's Tik Tok?

[Geir Rasch]

6 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

In my opinion, universities these days are so left wing as to be totally out of touch with reality

You must be very far right and totally out of touch with reality to make such a statement. :)

[proton]

14 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

What's Tik Tok?

Girls in tiny bikinis, endless soppy dog videos, old songs by dead people, weird conspiracy nonsense, street food, gormless 5 things not to do in Thailand clips and about 1% of material actually worth watching. You have not missed anything 

[hotchilli]

1 minute ago, proton said:

Girls in tiny bikinis, endless soppy dog videos, old songs by dead people, weird conspiracy nonsense, street food, gormless 5 things not to do in Thailand clips and about 1% of material actually worth watching. You have not missed anything 

As I thought.

[proton]

According to the Times ranking Chula is 801-1000 in the world and over 200 in Asia with teaching rated at 31.5, and they think they can tell people what to do ???? seems to have more pressing concerns than people watching football

 

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/chulalongkorn-university

[proton]

7 minutes ago, Geir Rasch said:

You must be very far right and totally out of touch with reality to make such a statement. ????

Actually he is spot on, most western Universities are woke hot spots of anti free speech marxist training centres.

[scorecard]

48 minutes ago, Geir Rasch said:

You must be very far right and totally out of touch with reality to make such a statement. ????

Prefer a specific answer to my question. 

[scorecard]

43 minutes ago, proton said:

Actually he is spot on, most western Universities are woke hot spots of anti free speech marxist training centres.

Comments seem to show opposite views; left <> right .... right <> left, confusing. 

[CLW]

Why Thailand doesn't do what other countries with world cup on public broadcasting institutions: play advertising and use this money to pay for the rights.

Not rocket science, is it?

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

What's Tik Tok?

It's what a clock does.

[Liverpool Lou]

20 minutes ago, CLW said:

Why Thailand doesn't do what other countries with world cup on public broadcasting institutions: play advertising and use this money to pay for the rights.

Not rocket science, is it?

The rights to broadcast the event have to be paid for first.   Not rocket science, is it?

[BritScot]

1 hour ago, Geir Rasch said:

You must be very far right and totally out of touch with reality to make such a statement. ????

Why always the "Far Right" used to insult? What was said is very true. Ideologies promoted in universities is quite sickening. When scientific fact gets you persecuted and kicked out and when students unions put on one sided political propaganda and tell students how to double and treble vote (this practice being illegal). 

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, Geir Rasch said:

You must be very far right and totally out of touch with reality to make such a statement. ????

Being to the right is "out of touch with reality" but being to the left isn't seems to be what you're suggesting?   I don't think that it's him who's out of touch with reality.

[taotoo]

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Quite right too. Governments have no business getting involved in commercial sport.

User pays.

Every government that sends a team to the world cup is involved in commercial sport.

[OneMoreFarang]

That's one of those situations where Prayut can't win.

If his government doesn't waste all that money on football the masses will be unhappy and blame him.

And if "he" spends all that money on football nobody will thank him and vote for him because of that.

Lose/lose.

 

[PETERTHEEATER]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

What's Tik Tok?

Only the Watchman knows.......

[scorecard]

3 hours ago, Geir Rasch said:

You must be very far right and totally out of touch with reality to make such a statement. ????

Well that's a big assumption on your part and you're way off the truth.

[madmitch]

The competition starts in just over a week yet Thailand still hasn't worked out whether or not it'll be on TV! Then there's the task of getting advertisers and sponsors, not to forget the TV scheduling. Totally amateur.

[CLW]

On 11/9/2022 at 1:48 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

The rights to broadcast the event have to be paid for first.   Not rocket science, is it?

I'd guess the big advertisers (Chang, Osotspa, Singha) should have enough cash reserves to pre-pay for the rights one month in advance 

[BangkokReady]

On 11/9/2022 at 3:08 AM, webfact said:

The Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University and the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communications at Thammasat University have issued a joint statement opposing a proposal, from the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) to the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), seeking the use of 1.6 billion baht from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Research and Development Fund for Public Interest (BTFP) to buy the rights to live broadcasts of World Cup 2022 in Thailand.

Interesting.  It seems like subsidisation is a major part of Thai politics and the chief way of placating the masses.  I wonder why they objecting to this specifically?  Would it have previously come out of some sort of tourism income based budget?

[Geir Rasch]

On 11/9/2022 at 12:12 PM, proton said:

Actually he is spot on, most western Universities are woke hot spots of anti free speech marxist training centres.

This is so far out from reality that it might be impossible to reach in to you, sorry.

[Geir Rasch]

On 11/9/2022 at 4:01 PM, scorecard said:

Well that's a big assumption on your part and you're way off the truth.

Univerity scientists work on science, not ideology! That people with left side ideology seems to take knowledge from scientists does not make universities ideological.

 

I do not know wether you are European or American, but from your posting I assume that you are American, myself I'm Northern European. When it comes to politic I know there is a very big difference between Europe and US. Most countries in Northern Europe are Social Democratic, but you call that socialism. That makes it impossible for further discussion since we do not have a common political language.

[proton]

19 minutes ago, Geir Rasch said:

This is so far out from reality that it might be impossible to reach in to you, sorry.

How many UK Universities have you visited lately?

[scorecard]

1 minute ago, Geir Rasch said:

Univerity scientists work on science, not ideology! That people with left side ideology seems to take knowledge from scientists does not make universities ideological.

 

I do not know wether you are European or American, but from your posting I assume that you are American, myself I'm Northern European. When it comes to politic I know there is a very big difference between Europe and US. Most countries in Northern Europe are Social Democratic, but you call that socialism. That makes it impossible for further discussion since we do not have a common political language.

Actually I'm not American.

 

I suggest that a very large % of Americans have no understanding of / don't want to understand the Social Democratic model of sharing and supporting each other aiming for a good quality of life for all. It seems to me many Americans see Socialism as Communism and that's of course not what, in modern terms, Socialism means.

 

I'm from a solid Social Democrat country. I've lived in a Social Democrat society / discussion all my life. At home my parents attitudes to everything was underpinnned by sharing, equal opportunity and all (of society) supporting each other.  This framed my attitudes and values today; sharing, equal opportunity and supporting each other - Social Democrat.  

 

Many countries today are Social Democratic and are peaceful, balanced, have a good quality of life, and quality medical care for all at zero to very very small personal cost. It works.