Image of the Thai Monarchy in the Foreign Press after the 2006 Coup d’état
Keywords:
Thai monarchy, foreign press, the 2006 coup d’étatAbstract
This paper discusses the changing perceptions towards the Thai monarchy among the foreign journalists since the 2006 coup d’état. From the cold-war era to mid 2000’s, foreign news reporting on the Thai monarchy had been presented in a more positive tone. Since the 2006 coup d’état, however, there have been an increasing number of reports and commentaries in a more critical tone. The author points out that these changes are consequences of the following factors: the colour-based political polarization, political mobilizations by the royalist networks, the increase in prosecution under the lèse-majesté law and the foreign journalists’ access to more diverse sources.
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