After a controversial meeting with the Russian ambassador on information protection of the Ukraine conflict, the director of the Royal Thai Army-owned TV Channel 5 is being replaced. Reports level out the meeting between Channel 5 director Rangsee Kitiyanasap and the ambassador earlier this month, but it’s unclear why the channel’s chief is being changed. Unauthorized says he had submitted a letter of resignation, which said he was leaving the news outlet because of a “personal cause.”
Rangsee had met with the Russian Ambassador to Thailand Yevgeny Tomikhin over a week ago to speak about a information partnership between Russia’s navy community and different news shops. The Bangkok Post says he signed an agreement concerning protection of the continuing crisis where Channel 5 employees would wish to confirm reports with the Russian embassy.
Many criticised the neutrality of the channel, however Rangsee informed reporters that he additionally met with Ukraine’s Chargé d’affaires Oleksandr Lysak to debate a news exchange with Ukraine for balanced coverage of the continued conflict.
In an interview with Thai PBS, Rangee stated they needed more news sources for coverage of the Ukraine conflict, saying “We have been relying too much on western news businesses. How can we inform whether or not what they report are true? We must have steadiness in our information.”
Two anchors on Channel 5 spread false data on a broadcast earlier this month. The anchors falsely said that Ukrainians “faked casualties,” while showing footage from a local weather change protest in Austria final month where activists lay on the bottom with body luggage as a demonstration. The pretend information had unfold on social media, but Channel 5 failed to correctly fact examine the video and find the unique source.
The station, which advertises itself as a public broadcaster for national security, is a company division of the Royal Thai Army. Rangsee is to be replaced by the former director of the Army Training Command on April 7.
SOURCE: Nation | Bangkok Post