Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has long complained of press criticism. But he sought to turn the tables on Thursday with a new tactic - sounding a buzzer every time reporters ask questions he deems "not constructive."
To the surprise of journalists and colleagues alike, Thaksin raised a buzzer - which displayed an X sign - from behind the podium to indicate his disapproval of some questions asked at the first in a new series of weekly news conferences.
The button-pushing Thaksin sounded the alarm when a Thai newspaperman asked why the government had failed to seek parliamentary consent before introducing an emergency decree in the volatile southern provinces, where a Muslim insurgency has taken hold.
Then when another reporter asked a question about the effect of rising oil prices, a question he liked, he stuck up another buzzer - this one decorated with a green circle - and made a more pleasant buzz noise than the one with the red X, and commended the journo for asking a good question.
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Serjical Strike wrote:
MF wrote:
simple schoolboy wrote:
why didn't we think of this first!?
They already tried it, but your President couldn't master the buzzer system.
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