We don't need to hear it
Television channels should have killed the sound on footage of the exchanges between pro and anti-Thaksin demonstrators on Monday as it could lead to greater political confrontations and even killings, Chart Thai Party deputy leader Nikorn Chamnong said yesterday.
"Why did they have to air those words. People who heard them have become even more divisive. They should make an effort to consider the matter," he said, adding the issue was sensitive and should be treated like that of rape victim whose face is normally not shown by the media."The country is being divided into two and civil war could break out if we're not careful. "I believe from now on, some people could die. Thai society always puts feeling before facts and the exchange of words is about feelings and should have been censored," Nikorn told a seminar on communication and politics at Krirk University. Nikorn said in the end, nothing was worth the violence. He said politics was just a "sport" in which the winner gets the chance to serve the public and no one should think about killing one another in order to win. "It's a family matter," he said of the current social rift, citing the familiar refrain that all Thais belong to one large family with the King and Queen as the father and the mother of the nation. - Pravit Rojanaphruk, The Nation
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