PHUKET'S MEDIA WARS

Alan Morison from Phuketwan has written a good piece about the battle for newspaper readers and advertisers on the island of Phuket.

One interesting observation he makes is .. "We are reliably informed that some Phuket officials are now being offered payments to supply news-related information to one newspaper only, and that they are being told to not provide help to Phuketwan and to other news outlets".

I've previously written about reports that some newsagents and bookshops were being told they would not be supplied copies of one newspaper if they stocked copies of another.

Phuket is certainly a newspaper battleground right now.