The People's Party (PP) on Monday raised concerns that the axing of the long-running TV programme Inside Thailand, which will cease broadcasting on MCOT's 9 HD channel on June 30, may amount to silencing the press.
PP list-MP Pukkamon Nunarnan claimed in a Facebook post on Monday that there was indeed an order for the show's removal by the "blue regime" -- a term commonly used by critics to refer to the political network associated with the ruling Bhumjaithai Party.
She asked whether the decision to take the show off air was an attempt to "shut the mouth of the media", pointing to the programme's recent criticism of the government's TH-AI Passport project.
