Thursday, December 24, 2009

Red shirts turn attention to media outlets

Supporters of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship push against a police barricade outside the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry. The group yesterday demanded that the government prosecute former prime minister Surayud Chulanont for encroaching on a forest reserve at Khao Yai Thieng in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Chong district. THITI WANNAMONTHA
24/12/2009
Bangkok Post

The United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship is planning a major rally next week and is considering taking action against media outlets it believes are guilty of biased reporting, sources say.
The group said it would conduct its protest on Sunday and Monday.
UDD core member Natthawut Saikua said he could not rule out the possibility that some red shirt protesters might "drop by" at media outlets they have found to take political sides.
"They have the right [to rally]," Mr Natthawut said. "And the press should be open to the customers' freedom of expression."

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