Kanit offers changes to controversial media bill

[webfact]

Kanit offers changes to controversial media bill
By Kasamakorn Chanwanpen
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE media regulation bill prepared by the National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA)’s media reform committee as part of national reform has faced harsh criticism that it seeks to control media outlets, rather than protect the media. The key points that major media groups have strongly opposed are the make-up of the proposed professional council and the media licensing system outlined in the bill.

 

HOW DID THE PANEL COME UP WITH THE IDEA TO HAVE THE MEDIA REGULATED THROUGH NEW MECHANISMS LIKE THE MEDIA PROFESSIONAL COUNCIL AND SUCH?

 

We didn’t. It was something we took from the now-defunct National Reform Council (NRC)’s committee on media reform. They are not around today as they were dissolved after the previous draft charter was aborted. But what they studied remained, and we continue their work. The professional council was part of their study.

 

WHY WOULD THE PROFESSIONAL COUNCIL BE SET UP, WHEN THE PRESS ALREADY HAS THEIR OWN ASSOCIATIONS?

 

For that, you will have to ask the NRC. We just took the baton from them. But from the study they conducted, the thing about the regulation proposed, they said it was necessary.

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30305908

 

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[candide]

"For that, you will have to ask the NRC. We just took the baton from them..."

 

So that guy does not know what he does. When someone asks him, he answers that someone else has done it so he does not know why....

[manarak]

I wonder if translating and re-publishing news from foreign news networks will require a license.

 

another question is, if those really think licensing can stop the internet.

[Wilsonandson]

I wonder if translating and re-publishing news from foreign news networks will require a license.
 
another question is, if those really think licensing can stop the internet.

The single gateway will try it's hardest.

[elgordo38]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

they said it was necessary.

They are gone put on your free thinkers hat sitting on top of your supposed open mind and do something the media can live with. Your messing with something that effects public opinion which of course you want to control but you could be walking into a media minefield on this one.