CDC chief urges media on self-reforms

[webfact]

CDC chief urges media on self-reforms
By   KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- CHIEF CHARTER drafter Meechai Ruchupan has urged Thailand’s mass media to reform themselves – or outsiders would have to.

 

Meechai, chairman of the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC) and an advocate of media reform, said the media should put forward proposals on how they would self-regulate.

 

However, he declined to comment on whether the draft law of the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA) that has been criticised as controlling the media was in accordance with the new referendum-endorsed constitution.

 

Meechai said that the media would have to reform themselves and come up with a set of proposals on self-regulation, so this could be compared with the NRSA version. When the draft bill was put before the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) for deliberation, the legislators could then see the alternatives, he said.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30303308

 

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[candide]

And the NLA will vote 168:0 for......

[Srikcir]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Meechai said that the media would have to reform themselves and come up with a set of proposals on self-regulation, so this could be compared with the NRSA version.

Self-reform as long as it meets NRSA's version.

Thanks for the clarification.

[baboon]

4 hours ago, candide said:

And the NLA will vote 168:0 for......

But with five abstentions, don't forget those... It isn't like it would be a complete stitch up...

[yellowboat]

The media should never be restrained in anyway other than by liable laws.   Their job is to report the truth whether stodgy, over entitled nitwits like Meechai like it or not.  Does anyone in all of Thailand know anything about governance ?  Forgot, Thailand has more coups than any other Asian Country so the answer is NO.

[waldroj]

"...CHIEF CHARTER drafter Meechai Ruchupan has urged Thailand’s mass media to reform themselves – or outsiders would have to..."

 

Taking aim at the media again in what is hardly a thinly-veiled threat from the shrivelled-up old weasel and his buddies - more like what could best be described as a "burqa" threat.

 

Unless they are only joking, again - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-junta-media-idUSKBN0ML0RV20150325

 

 

May as well strike-out Sections 35 and 36 of the so-called "people's" Constitution then !!!

 

[elgordo38]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

BANGKOK: -- CHIEF CHARTER drafter Meechai Ruchupan has urged Thailand’s mass media to reform themselves – or outsiders would have to.

Sounds like a threat to me. I guess he wants the media to toe the party line or do a hari kari vamonose.