Manacled again

The somewhat laid-back attitude towards media over the past two years has ended, with journalists literally and figuratively handcuffed in a campaign likely to affect the election.

It has been quite an early summer harvest for the regime combines baling up inconvenient voices.

PPTV, the digital outlet founded and funded by Bangkok Airways visionary Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth, lost the excellent news commentator Vanchai Tantivitayapitak. He had the serial nerve to report and present views on items that make the regime look bad.

Pim Shaw Kemasingki, there's a woman needs to respect her betters in the regime. As the right-thinking governor of Chiang Mai, Pavin Chamniprasart noted, making satire of Lanna kings is literally blasphemous because Lanna kings are sacred. Fortunately for the country, there is a Computer Crime Act to care for the CityLife Chiang Mai editor. Another respected personality is soon to disappear from the Spring TV newsroom. And so on.