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"The advertising budget of government agencies may affect press freedom, so we should ban it," said Boonlert Kachayudhadej, spokesman of the committee on media and information technology reform.

He was speaking yesterday after attending a meeting of the committee.

Boonlert said press freedom must be protected to ensure the mass media including new media fulfilled its public duty.

"The government and mass-media owners must not restrict freedom, as long as the media works in line with professional and ethnical standards," he said.

Boonlert said the committee also determined that the definition of mass media must be updated in response to changing circumstances.

"The mass media is no longer just about television stations, radio stations or newspapers anymore. We need to cover new media too," he said.

He said that if self-regulatory bodies were in place and effective in ensuring mass media members complied with ethics, a legal response would not be needed.

"But if these bodies can't efficiently control their members, legal measures will become necessary," he said.

Boonlert said his committee would submit its recommendations to the Constitution Drafting Assembly on December 10.

"The National Reform Council will also convene its sessions between December 15 and 17 so that all its 18 committees can deliberate on their ideas, principles and recommendations," he added.

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25 November 2014

Inquiry Shows New Media PR Here to Stay

Facilitate Communications welcomes the Prime Ministers release of the Inquiry report into allegations regarding the Honourable Judith Collins and a former Director of the Serious Fraud Office, Adam Feeley.

The Inquiry by former High Court Judge Justice Chisholm has exonerated our client Mark Hotchin from any attempt to undermine the then head of the Serious Fraud Office Mr Adam Feeley, said Carrick Graham, Managing Director of Facilitate Communications.

Reputation management today involves utilising all sources of media, especially social media platforms that allow enhanced control over the message delivery, said Mr Graham.

Facilitate Communications worked to address numerous incorrect, defamatory and outright misleading commentary about our client that had appeared in mainstream media. A core role of PR professionals is to achieve a more balanced media and public commentary on issues of interest to clients.

Recent claims about some conspiracy by people that were not involved in strategy discussions or the execution of the public relations strategies, have been proved by the Inquiry to be demonstrably wrong.

Now that the Inquiry is complete the time has come to set the record straight. There was never any intention to undermine the regulators, including Mr Feeley. The public attention Mr Feeley gained was as a result of his own actions and that of his staff.

Furthermore in a democracy, which preserves freedom of expression, criticism of public servants is not a crime, particularly when there is an uneven playing field in terms of media commentary.

To get cut-through in todays 24/7 media landscape, public relations has had to evolve. It is no longer enough sending out media releases hoping for coverage or pick up. To deliver results in a highly specialised area involves innovative thinking and execution, and that is exactly what we do, said Mr Graham.

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CHATTANOOGA, TN (GoMocs.com) -- The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team cleaned house on the Southern Conference postseason awards announced by the league office today. Russ Huesman, Davis Tull and Jacob Huesmanswept coach, defensive, and offensive player of the year honors given out by the coaches and media, while Corey Levin took home the Jacobs Blocking Award.

All totaled, an astonishing 21 Mocs walked away with some type of recognition between the All-SoCon and all-freshman teams. A school-record 17 Mocs made the All-SoCon first or second teams while a league-high six earned SoCon All-Freshman recognition.

The elder Huesman is the first Moc football coach to win three SoCon Coach of the Year honors. He swept the award from both the coaches and the media. He led Chattanooga to a 9-3 overall record and a 7-0 SoCon mark this season for its sixth league crown. Coupled with last season's shared SoCon title, Huesman has now led the Mocs to back-to-back titles for the first time since 1978-79.

In addition to earning a spot in the FCS Playoffs for the first time in 30 years, the Mocs also earned the No. 8 national seed and a first-round bye. Chattanooga has been nationally ranked all season, including this week's school-record No. 8 listing in both the FCS Coaches and Sports Network top 25.

Tull and Jacob Huesman become the sixth pair of teammates to sweep the media awards and the first duo to do so for UTC. They also took both honors from the coaches. Tull is currently on the Buchanan Watch List while Huesman is a Payton Award candidate.

Huesman averaged 243 yards of total offense per game. He led the Southern Conference and ranks sixth nationally in pass efficiency (155.9). The Chattanooga, Tenn., native completed 68 percent of his passes for 2,155 yards this season, including a season-high 359 yards against Mercer on Oct. 25. Huesman tossed 21 touchdowns against just seven interceptions. The junior is just three touchdown passes away from setting a new school record. He averaged 63.6 yards per game on the ground and scored 10 touchdowns.

Tull, a defensive lineman, leads the league in sacks for the third straight season, posting 10.5 this year to become the SoCon's all-time leader with 37.0. With his third straight defensive honor, he becomes just the second player in league history to be named defensive player of the year three times and the first since Appalachian State's Dexter Coakley from 1994-96. So far this season, Tull has amassed 55 tackles (35 solo), with 17.0 going for lost yardage. The senior from Knoxville, Tenn., also has a fumble recovery and was the SoCon Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 29.

Levin is just the second Moc to earn the Jacobs Blocking Award and the first in 31 years, joining Mike Nease, who won it in 1983. Also a first-team all-conference selection, Levin, a sophomore offensive lineman from Dacula, Ga., was integral in helping the Mocs boast the top scoring offense in the SoCon at 35.1 points per game and the third-best rushing offense in the league at 204.8 yards per game. The Mocs also lead the conference in pass efficiency at 154.2.

First team honorees for Chattanooga on offense include Huesman, Levin, senior tight end Faysal Shafaatand senior running back Keon Williams. Freshman center Jacob Revis was a consensus second-team pick, while the league's coaches gave senior receivers Tommy Hudson and sophomore receiver C.J. Boardsecond team recognition.

Defensively, Tull was one of six Mocs to earn first team recognition. He and senior defensive linemanDerrick Lott were picked by both the coaches and the media. Senior linebacker Muhasibi Wakeel and freshman defensive back Lucas Webb made the media's first team while sophomore defensive backs Cedric Nettles and Dee Virgin made the coaches first team. Sophomore defensive lineman Keionta Davis and sophomore linebacker Nakevion Leslie were consensus second team selections on defense.

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Bill Cosby survived accusations of sexual assault for decades until viral social media outrage took him down in a matter of days.

Digital operatives recognize that Cosbys fall is sure to be an unusual case, given the severity of what more than a dozen women have said he did, including several who had not spoken out before.

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But strategists also see Cosbys fall as a case study in how social media can spread old news to new audiences with speed and efficiency dramatically different from what any previous generations of political candidates have encountered.

So while opposition researchers retool their digital approach ahead of the 2016 presidential race, when social media will be even more important, theyre planning how to use these digital platforms in new ways to reignite the controversies in their opponents past as part of their campaign strategy.

(Also on POLITICO: Was Chuck Hagel the wrong man for the job?)

The Cosby situation isnt unique to Hollywood celebrities, said Vincent Harris, an Austin-based GOP digital consultant who worked for Mitch McConnells 2014 campaign and recently signed on as top tech strategist for Rand Pauls political operation. The same situation could take place in politics, with decades old information, videos, and events coming to light and with enough online drive behind them, they could ignite a firestorm. People online are relentless and politicians must work hard to harness the searches and information seeking of voters, channeling them into a medium where they control the message.

Part of the reason the past does well on social media is the audience. Users tend to be younger and may not have lived through the first cycle of the story years ago.

Old news is actually new news, GOP strategist Kevin Madden said.

The stuff that happened 15 years ago is a window into how they arrived at this moment, Madden said of how the next generation of voters might find things newsworthy and help propel them to go viral. Its a window into their resume and a window into the kind of person they are.

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ITV Report 25 November 2014 at 2:38pm European police said internet technology allowed the 'industrialisation' of people trafficking. Credit: DPA

People traffickers are exploiting social media and the internet to entrap and control victims, forcing them into prostitution and other criminal activity, the head of the European policing agency has warned.

Europol director Rob Wainwright said that advertisements on sites like Facebook promising work in childcare or cleaning were used by criminal gangs to draw in vulnerable young women.

The traffickers then used internet technology such as webcams to monitor their victims, controlling their movements ensuring they turned up to work in brothels or other criminal enterprises.

Speaking to the Centre for Social Justice think tank in London, Mr Wainwright said the use of modern technology had enabled the "industrialisation" of the traffickers' activities, allowing them to control many more problems.

"Facebook is effectively being used in many cases as the means to attract and then enslave vulnerable young women," he said.

"They (the traffickers) are using the modern technological tools to more efficiently monitor an increasing number of victims.

"So instead of paying them a visit every day they can use the webchat services but also webcam cameras to confirm that they are where they should be, they are in that brothel waiting for the next customer.

"In the past, the pimps and traffickers had to do that by physically visiting them.

"Now they can just do it at the click of a button and therefore control 50 victims much more easily and readily in virtual form.

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