Media, Politics, Tech & Censorship with Cod Satrusayang [Season 4, Episode 20]

Greg interviews Cod Satrusayang, editor-in-chief of
ThaiEnquirer.com, one of Thailand's newest news sites. Cod
explains that after a decade of experience in the foreign press
in Thailand and abroad, he felt that Thailand's English-language
press had been somewhat diluted by corporate meddling and special
interests. What the country needed was true independent media
from a Thai perspective. 


Greg and Cod discuss 'woke' culture and the similar role
that comedians and journalists play when pushing boundaries
regardless of the risks, in the same way that the leaders of the
Future Forward Party, recently dissolved, have done by expressing
no regrets about starting a party that challenged the Thai
military. Greg and Cod also discuss the history of student
involvement in politics in Thailand, from the original protests
in 1973 through 1976 and later Black May in 1992. Cod argues that
although students were less involved in the 1990s, they have
become more involved since the coup of 2014 - something that we
see happening in greater numbers as this episode goes to
air.


Last, the guys discuss some of the ways that the new
generation of Thais think and act differently from their
predecessors, especially when you take into account the role
played by overseas travel and education, and the influence of the
Internet and social media. 


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