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The decision by BBC bosses to cut the line also left Mr Beaumont baffled.

When asked on Twitter why it was removed he replied: Not sure - I just saw that myself and was wondering the same thing.

He then posted to his 24,000 followers: Great to hear you enjoyed the coverage. Thanks. Maybe the editor though it was sexist - which it wasn't. I'm not worried about it.

(BBC)

And the teenage judo star herself, Cynthia Rahming, shrugged off the charge of sexism, telling the Mail on Sunday: I wasn't offended - I didn't find it sexist.

Kathy Lette, the 55-year-old novelist, told the newspaper: If the athlete didn't find it upsetting why should the BBC mount their politically correct high horse and gallop off into the sanctimonious sunset?

However, Mariella Frostrup, 51, backed the BBC's decision.

Girls to me is a fantastic word because I think, Girls...full of potential, she said.

But it has been used as a dismissive term as well. So I can imagine why it would be controversial. The athlete may not have been offended but the BBC has to think of the sensibilities of everybody watching.

(BBC)

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How news and mainstream media control public perception
How news and mainstream media control and limit our perception of reality and current events, creating a mentality of hopelessness, complacency and blame - w...

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BANGKOK: The Thai media are no stranger to covering military coups and political turmoil. Unfortunately, the martial law in place now has hampered the way news can be reported.

For television reporters the challenge has been overwhelming.

After martial law was declared, army troops occupied most TV stations around Bangkok. And since the coup, all TV programmes were taken off-air for a period of time.

Channels were only allowed to broadcast military-approved announcements and programmes.

It is not an easy job reporting on the political development after the coup in Thailand, and some local journalists have had to improvise to tell their stories. Several local journalists have resorted to using social media as reporting tools -- uploading video clips and dispatching reports from the field with their mobile phones.

Thapanee Letsrichai, a Thai journalist, said: "As a field journalist when we are on location, we want to tell people about what's happening. Personally, we have private spaces in the social media like Instragram, Twitter, and Facebook. So I have been using short Instragram videos to report from different locations."

For the news-hungry Thai public, the clamping down on media freedom has resulted in the proliferation of social media usage, which has also encouraged the circulation of rumors online.

This is worrying many local journalists, and has prompted them to take matters into their own hands.

Fellow Thai journalist Penpan Lamluang, said: "The real worry now is that there are lots of rumours on social media and we as journalist must not disseminate rumours that could further damage the situation. As journalists, we must stick to reporting truthfully based on facts."

Suparp Klee-khajai, president of the Thailand Digital TV Operators Association, said: "The media is a symbol of freedom. Freedom of the media symbolises the level of democracy in countries around the world.

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This Chrome extension lets you control the action in Google Music without needing to leave your current tab.

I have ditched Google Music's Web player for Radiant Player, a standalone Mac app that lets me access and control Google Music via my Mac's menu bar and media control keys. If you use Google Music via a browser, however, and dislike having to return to the Google Music tab to control your musical proceedings, then you should know there is a Chrome extension that lets you control the action without leaving your current tab.

The awkwardly named but subtly useful Music Bubbles extension for Chrome places a small, floating control on your current page. And when you reload your current tabs or open new pages, you'll find the Music Bubbles control floating on them, too.

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The Music Bubbles control is a transparent circle, which allows it to remain omnipresent without being overbearing. It's gray in color when you do not have Google Music opened and turns orange when you do have it going.

Mouse over it and play, skip back, and skip forward buttons spring forth, along with thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. And if a song is playing, you'll see the song name and artist below the Music Bubbles control.

Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET

Perform a long click on the Music Bubbles control and the thumbs-up and -down buttons retreat and two black buttons appear in their place. The one on the left lets you drag the Music Bubbles control to reposition it, and the one on the right lets you blacklist the current site so that the control does not show up when you visit the site. You can then edit your blacklist in the extension's options.

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The four organisations are the Thai Journalists Association, the Press Council of Thailand, the Thai Broadcast Journalists, and the News Broadcasting Council of Thailand.

The open letter called on the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council to urgently review all orders that are involved with the journalist duty of the media.

The organisations suggested that the NPOMC should have the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission enforce existing laws to supervise news reports instead of using the restrictive orders to control the media.

The letter also called on the NPOMC to clearly declare that it would support and would not obstruct the journalist duty of all types of media because such a stand would create confidence among Thais and in the eyes of the international community.

The organisations said the NPOMC should urgently arrange for the new charter to be enacted and the new charter should have provisions that guarantee the press freedom.

The organisations also called on the media and journalists to give priority to national interests in their works and provide space for constructive comments for national reforms.

The media and journalist are also called on to have responsibility in their freedom of expression.

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