I quit, says TV newsman
A popular newscaster yesterday resigned from a TV morning news programme because of the "sensationalised and tasteless coverage" of crime news in Thai media.
ML Natthakorn Dhevakul said his resignation on Monday from "Rueng Lao Chao Nee" [This Morning's Tales] programme on Channel 3 was not a result of any conflict with producer and anchor Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda.Most of the news details read out and discussed in the show are taken from newspapers. "I was against the idea from the beginning, whether it's newspapers or television news, to give every detail about crimes or women [who are rape victims] repeatedly. "Thai people are used to violence being planted in their minds unwittingly by the media, and now they have to hear everything reported again on TV. The media in developed countries do not do such a thing. "No newspaper has stopped this practice, possibly because there is nobody influential enough to change it. I am not an influential enough person to make any change to what is reported again on TV. So I quit." The Nation
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