Media in jeopardy with TRT victory

Media in jeopardy with TRT victory - The Nation, February 17, 2005
...Thaksin and his friends in the business community are widely perceived to be exerting influence on the print media, either by applying an advertising squeeze on newspapers or by directly influencing management and editorial decisions through the board rooms of those newspapers...

More tricks? Apirak show pushed back - The Nation, February 17, 2005
...Officials at the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) said they had received notice of the schedule change in the morning from Pacific Co, the operator of the station under a concession from the Army.
“We wondered why the schedule was shifted by one hour, so we asked the company for an explanation. But we were simply told that the Army has approved the change,” a BMA official said...