Ah, the travails of facing journalists:
Well-known for his sensitivity to criticism, Mr Thaksin has often been accused of trying to control the media in Thailand.
But at the first of what he promises will be weekly meetings, Mr Thaksin looked relaxed at Thursday's press event, our correspondent says.
Careful briefing by his advisors did not stop some characteristically quixotic answers creeping in, though, our correspondent says.
He asked the media not to judge the insurgency in the south by the rising number of killings there - and insisted the situation was improving.
But the prime minister's most surprising response was to a question he did not like, our correspondent says.
In the past he has sometimes lost his temper and made ill-considered remarks in front of the cameras, but in Thursday's meeting, he merely held up a small sign marked with a black cross, and pressed a buzzer to show his disapproval.
He said it was an idea he said his son had borrowed from a Japanese game show.
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)
crude yet surprisigly honest.
Also, more heads of state need to take cues from Japanese game shows.
― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)
dude... yeah... i'd like to see various administration officials run across slippery rolling obstacles and fall on their nuts. i would watch that all the time.
oh... even better... to use their veto power, they have to survive a physical challenge!
eh, that means jocks would rule more than just high school. bah. oh, maybe you're allowed to build a robot to do it for you. no help allowed tho!
m.
― msp (mspa), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
Taksin is an arrogant arsehole who is constantly trying to censor anything in the media which he feels is negative about his government. he is almost certainly responsible for launching the lible suit against the newspaper I work for here. This week alone we have had two good people pressured to resign over a couple of lines in a story which were retracted the very next day anyway. the man is vain, srrogant, deploarable and corrupt.
Sorry for the badly spelt and constructed message, but he makes me so mad I can't even think straight.
― Paul Kelly (kelly), Monday, 29 August 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)
And his son is a spoilt little shit too, i had to interview him once....horrid little git
― Paul Kelly (kelly), Monday, 29 August 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)
"Also, more heads of state need to take cues from Japanese game shows."
HERE WE PUNISH FAILURE!!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 29 August 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)