'Subscriber' demo at 'The Nation'
About 100 people, including 30 motorcycle taxi drivers, staged a protest in front of The Nation office Tuesday afternoon, demanding that the paper stop what they called distortion of the news.
The protesters arrived at The Nation in an airconditioned bus while the motorcycle taxi drivers rode their own bikes. "We want to call on The Nation to report only the truth, no more distorting of news and stories, for the sake of the country," shouted one protester through a loudŽspeaker. The crowd displayed banners reading: "The Nation should cease reporting inaccurate news" and "The Nation betrays the principles of journalism". People in the crowd said they were from Samut Prakan and claimed to be subscribers of the Englishlanguage newspaper. Some were interviewed by The Nation reporters and could not give examples of news stories that they said were distorted. One young female protester told reporters that she received Bt200. The protesters presented a wreath and an effigy to represenŽtatives of the paper. At first, they planned to burn the effigy but later changed their minds. After half an hour, a leader picked up his loudspeaker and told the protesters to leave. The group departed The Nation compound on board the airconŽditioned bus. The Nation
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