NO ECONOMIST, BUT DOES ANYONE CARE?
Am I alone in feeling a little surprised there's no mainstream media coverage of the decision by The Economist not to distribute in Thailand this week?
Just to reiterate this is not a ban, this is a commercial decision taken by the publishers in light of what they themselves refer to as the "sensitive nature" of their coverage of Thailand.
Perhaps the world doesn't care? Perhaps it's had enough of Thailand? Perhaps the several thousand people in Thailand who will not get their magazine this week don't matter? Perhaps the reasons for this decision have been debate too often in recent months?
2 comments:
I'd be angry if I were a subscriber and the magazine charged me for it when I didn't receive it, or get another issue for free as a replacement.
But you can get it online, so no big deal.
As far as censorship goes, the Abhisit government just shut down all the Red leaning media in the country, and there was no MSM outrage over that.
To be fair I should have stated that subscribers have been given one additional copy as part of their subscription as a result of not getting a copy this week.
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