In Progress
When Nothing Mainstream Works: Thai Women Manage Despite the Media
- Category: Women in Action 2008-2
- Author: Nina Somera
- Year: 2008
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Review
Thailand is among the Southeast Asian countries whose media landscape is fraught with so much struggles. In the last few years alone, Thailand became a perfect case of an alarming media ownership, where news of extrajudicial killings especially in the south were muzzled while the more courageous media practitioners were slapped with multi-million dollar libel suits, that were impossible to be paid within a single lifetime.