Govt has no licence to control media: Meechai

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017
Govt has no licence to control media: Meechai

Meechai Ruchupan, chief charter drafter, insisted yesterday that the new constitution does not give the government a license to control the media.

He was speaking in response to the row between the media and media reformers, saying he did not know that permanent secretaries had been added to the media professional council. He added that the authorities would have to look into the reasons behind this decision and judge whether it was appropriate or not. 
He said the charter written by his panel had only set broad guidelines about the media abiding by a professional code of conduct.