Hiccup in TV graft campaign
Junta leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin yesterday blamed "human error" for broadcasting glitches during the awareness campaign on corruption aired by Army-run Channel 5 over the weekend.
Sonthi dismissed speculation that the military failed to cooperate fully with the Assets Examination Committee (AEC) to expose graft violations by senior members of the ousted government."I want the anti-corruption programme to be on air in order to raise public awareness, and starting this week, the broadcasting staff should air the show in its time slot," Sonthi said. He said the broadcast of the documentary on corruption, made with the AEC, resumed on Sunday after station staff mistakenly mixed up the broadcasting schedule the day before. Channel 5 officials said they had aired the wrong documentary tape, but sought to rectify the error by broadcasting the two-tape documentary during prime time on Sunday evening. The TV station has allocated the 7.30pm prime-time slot after the evening news to air the anti-corruption documentary on Saturdays and Sundays. Last week's documentary outlined the scandal relating to the installation of CTX 9000 bomb scanners at Suvarnabhumi Airport. This weekend's report is slated to expose irregularities linked to the Ua Arthorn housing project.
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