New York (dpa)Thailand has been listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists as one of the world's worst backsliders in freedom of the media in the past five years - countries that have turned from being relatively open into repressive and those where press conditions have worsened.
NOTE:
The website of the Committee to Protect Journalists is at
http://www.cpj.org/
The report on Backsliders is at
http://www.cpj.org/backsliders/index.html
The report section on Thailand is at:
http://www.cpj.org/attacks06/asia06/thai06.html
In Thailand, once leading in press freedom, the military junta under Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont nationalised the country's only private television station and ordered radio to broadcast only military-prepared news, the CPJ report says.
The Thai press would also rank at the bottom 10 in terms of quality reporting also.
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