CDC urged to ensure media freedom
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Media representatives Thursday urged the Constitution Drafting Commission to ensure media freedom and independence and the public's right to Internet access.
Thai Journalists Association president Chavarong Limpattamapanee said the charter draft should have provisions that ensured media freedom and prevented politicians and the state interfering in the media.
“The move to make the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission come under the government’s supervision is a threat to media freedom,” he said. “We actually want self-checking and not any agency controlling us.
“We have accepted self-control as part of media reform with strong measures to regulate and check ourselves.”
