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When the dust settles, Thai PBS must be revamped
News, Boonrak Boonyaketmala, Published on 19/10/2015
» For almost a decade, the public coffers have earmarked a "sin tax" of about two billion baht annually to finance the Thai Public Broadcasting Service, officially claimed to be the first public broadcasting service in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
The poverty of our political discourse
News, Boonrak Boonyaketmala, Published on 07/11/2015
» Given the often war-like weekly announcements of tough, sometimes intimidating positions by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on a variety of controversial issues since the May 22 coup last year, highlighted by occasional attitude adjustment sessions enforced on some politicians, intellectuals, academics, journalists, and non-governmental activists, the battle of verbal confrontations between competing groups — yellow-, red-, blue-shirt, and what not — has been decidedly quiet, by the pre-coup standard.
Freedom of thought distorted by party-run media
News, Boonrak Boonyaketmala, Published on 21/11/2015
» One of the keys to sustaining any political order is talk, or, more precisely, constant talk in a definite direction through half-truths, so noise will be absorbed into the thick air of propaganda.