Respect the role of journalistsThe government has been raising eyebrows recently with its approach to journalists. What garnered less attention was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' new guidelines for issuing media and official visas to foreign journalists and correspondents based in Thailand. The number of hoops which foreign journalists must jump through in the kingdom has increased. Not all journalists write reports -- there are also camera operators, photographers or documentary makers, to name a few. Officials here are often too defensive about media reports, fretting that only negative things get reported.

Source: Bangkok Post April 03, 2021 23:26 UTC