Travel and we meet with global news makers about the stories that matter. What. Youre watching the listening post working from home here are some of the media stories were covering this week. Unrest in thailand protesters take on the taboo that outlaws criticism of the political system and the monarchy at the heart of the turkish president sues a greek newspaper for a front page featuring a 4 letter word the paper says bring it on sports stadiums are empty but broadcasters are bursting with ideas on how to make up for the missing fans and making a mockery online of britains Pandemic Response when youre trying to conceive i went through a metaphorical make up to tory. As coronavirus lockdowns have gone into effect in country after country thailand has had a different experience shutting the borders and the early and Widespread Adoption of face masks have helped keep the numbers down there its also meant that political activists who have gone quiet across many countries hard hit by cope at 19 have been able to take to the streets the latest demonstrations were sizable and students and protestors have been zeroing in on one of the countrys most taboo political and social issues the monarchy whether youre an activist or a journalist covering the unrest criticizing thailands royal family can land you in jail decades of image building promonarchy propaganda and intimidation through some strict laws have affectively immunized thai royals against criticism but with the pandemic taking such a toll on the economy young thais are demanding all kinds of reforms and they refused to let either tradition or legal restrictions silence our starting point this week is bangkok. It comes down to a simple hash tag why do we need to keep one worth a reported 30000000000. 00 in a country economically staggered by a pandemic the biggest protests thailand has seen since the coup when 2 1014. 00 started 2 months ago with students demanding the dissolution of parliament and fresh elections one month. Then the demonstrators added an explosive element to their list of demands swinging their attention onto the time honored the relationship between king ma hard facts are a long corn and the military general term for Prime Minister produced china in a country where criticizing the monarchy can land you in jail for up to 15 years is. That not everyone agrees that everything under a democratic system should be open to questioning and critique and if we claim that thailand is a democratic country then we should be able to criticize our institutions especially the king a person who plays such an Important Role in the governance of the country i hear. You know were not just talking about the private life of the king which is a cost in britain the private lives of the royal d family have been really dissect the package and sold in thailand the past is expected to some sense or some element of. Regarding the monarchy as a stick to the fish alliance that has been the practice over the past decade you know. Actually the way thai people respect and pray to their kids is not different from how we treat our parents and grandparents were shipping the monarchy is a common practice in thai society we cannot compare our way of living with westerners because the roots of our societies are different you cannot compare bread with a car ok. Thats a promonarchy choice talk but its not how the students driving the protests see. Theyre up against a government that 1st took power in the truth as well as the Justice System and to lessen the just law that has been on the books since 90 no way lemme just as a french term meaning to do wrong to match that law known as article 11. 00. To makes it illegal to defame or insult the camp or the royal family it also allows legal cases to be brought by any citizen who makes a complaint to the authorities are relying on article 112 less often these days they now Police Speech online through newer laws such as the computer crime act of 2017 which has become the Thai Government statute of choice when it wants to prosecute journalists and others who dont toe the red line meet asked by the size of them or not you will be shocked but not unless majestic by adequately describe it all has become a political weapon some data soul company they know all not only for you to look at height Justice System but also the human rights pretty high that ive been highlighting it is a law to shop peoples mouths the law is too broad with far too aggressive punishment regarding the lowest scimitar less majestic while the government can use article 113. 00 that relates to efforts to overthrow the government or article 116. 00 relating to political agitation the application of light means really obstruct efforts to build a democratic society. Tie governments that have attempted to challenge the power of the royal family have not lost tax and shinawatra a billionaire tech and communications down tried it after being elected Prime Minister in 2001 the military took him down 5 years later with shinawatra in exile in 2011 his sister young luck ran in his place and what she was deposed in 2014 attacks and shinawatra remains in exile as does the academic behind one of the most influential social media pages on thai politics such. Power when chechen out pong pack from the relative safety of kioto japan. He can criticize the monarchy military complex in bangkok without fear of arrest late last month when the thai authorities blocked access to his Facebook Page royalist marketplace. And just started another one within days he had more than a 1000000 followers and at any 1500000 i can tell you that. I be treated. To could be. Very active they dont want to get one. Takes a b. You know one. Of the facebook groups drawing a list. Is in a way freefall venue for people wanting to criticize the monarchy. So the name is an oxymoron so this is such a code name its. A place where you could let the steam out and pretend as if highlander creepy when it comes to freedom of speech regarding the monarchy many of the members do not use their real identity so they are having. A very good time saying whatever they want to play was critically. We need to transform social media to enforce accountability and responsibility amongst Internet Users for what they do and. We do not want the kind of freedom that allows people to distort or create fake. We as supporters of the government do not seek to diminish the basic rights of citizens but online users need to be held accountable for their. Discussions fact based ones on social platforms like facebook grow more important when much of the mainstream news. Media arent doing their job thailands havent been ever since price channel just went out to power in 2014 arbitrary arrests of reporters have grown routine at least 10 fled the country and the government has allowed intelligence operatives from other countries including china and vietnam into thailand to arrest journalists and bloggers who thought they were safe in exile the time Mainstream Media know that questioning the monarchy is a line just not worth crossing. As for the time theyve been following us to report on our protest but the key problem with that bill trainable Movement Time journalists sometimes fail to report all the facts or they raise important points basically the type dont report about the royal family except for a Daily News Program with superficial information what were asking for is impatient about the money hes budgeted we care about their finances because it affects us the citizens directly but you never hear this is the kind of thing that the kind of president didnt touch or just with for the think i say this here the parliament has approved such and such a sum of money to be used by the royal family and i think thats highly media particularly the Mainstream Media is at a crossroads on the wrist. Becoming irrelevant i mean what is the press if they dont report whats happening. This of course to the 1st draft of history. And yet you just pretend that what youre seeing is not happening. What is your role as a journalist. And other media story thats on our radar this week relates to coverage of the dispute thats flared up between turkey and greece over gas reserves in the Eastern MediterraneanMeenakshi Ravi has been. Looking into it man up president erda one of turkey has taken issue with the coverage of this geo political story which Media Outlets is he talking about specifically he certainly isnt happy with what the media have been putting out richard turkey and greece both laid claim to gas reserves in the eastern med and over the past few months theres been a fair amount of matter time just in between the 2 countries the Media Coverage has been pretty charged 100 people in particular the right wing athens based democrates published a pretty good walk in front page we need translated from the greek it reads f. You mr erdogan and they made sure that they put that english translation on the front page as well president only ones personal lawyer immediately filed a criminal case in unca in which he cited the author of the article as well as democrats editors as suspects and this isnt the 1st foreign newspaper that the president of turkey has gone after as it know there have been legal cases against french and german outlets in the past but this case involves more than just the courts the legal massacre to turkey has been recalled to athens he made a statement in which he admitted that the headline was crass but he said the government respects freedom of speech and no action would be taken against democrats here the people itself is completely unapologetic the republic that front page with another headline which when you translated says come and get us and that line about freedom of speech had to be a veiled shot at turkey and its lousy reputation for freedom of the press in probably was the turkish government can be extremely harsh on journalists in the country and media freedoms have really been squeezed over the past decade or so richard now one prosecution that weve covered extensively has been of the former editor in chief of the turkish paper julian the editors name is john dyer back in 2015 an article published in the us people are exposed to secret turkish government shipments of arms to syria that are to lead to do indoors and s t. Tried in court before he fled to germany in 2016 a turkish government has now declared a fugitive and is given in 15 days to come back to turkey and present himself before a judge otherwise all his assets in turkey will be seized remember also gondar lives in germany with his wife but the rest of his family still live in turkey ok thanks will. This pandemic that has had so many of us locked down in our homes for months has also resulted in an unexpected boom for entertainment t. V. Cooking shows dramas films on various streaming services have all had captive audiences and some big ratings live sports though havent had it easy 1st leagues around the world were put on hold many of them have since resumed but with no fans suddenly live sports broadcasts from empty courts and stadiums have become one of the most innovative and Creative Spaces in the t. V. Industry were seeing cardboard cutouts of supporters robot cheerleaders c. G. I. Fans and were hearing fake crowd sounds the results have been hidden mess but some of the gimmicks have grown as entertaining as the players on the field the listening post johannah whos now on watching sports in pandemic times and the lengths that broadcasters will go to keep fans tuning in. As you can see its a little bit here recently with mike but it has been a huge watershed moment in the pandemic times films for how we broadcast obviously sport runs on passion and emotion and some of the games that the intensity and passion because there were no crowds that certainly lack it from a t. V. Experience i remember in march when we 1st kind of went under. The thought was oh my god theres theres no fans we cant possibly do this it was definitely harder without you know the spectacle and fans the most important. Economic aspect of sport is the t. V. Audience but the t. V. Audience needs to present would i liken them to extras on a field except they paid to be there. So you can have a battle scene with without extras and i dont think you could have a really compelling t. V. Spool contents without an audience. Screen. And so has the players have come back home to fields pictures in courts around the world sports leagues and broadcasters have pulled out every trick in the book and some new ones to create the illusion that the audience the spectators never really let. The. Efforts to recreate the fans in the scenes have ranged from creative. Quite questionable and basic. To a utterly bizarre. Stance have been filled with toys and in the case of south koreas f. C. C. Even to sex but to. Some major broadcasters however including sky sports and b t k have decided it isnt so much the visual presence of supporters as much as their impact that really gives spence to sense that they are watching with the crowd. Sky sports was one of the 1st networks to go all in with audio for its coverage of the premier league it seemed up with e. A. Sports the Company Behind the fee for video games they 1. 00 of the most extensive and sophisticated libraries of sound effects which is actually what makes their games as immersive as they are sky sports acquire those sounds and they are now key to the viewing experience that they are trying to create. An audio engineers like adam perry have their work cut out for them fortunately we were given that freedom as operators try and really tell us a story we werent just pushing about and then hoping for the best. So. I would go 3rd. I would listen to each individual and on this occasion i have 10 club another sound that we have available. As a bed and which is its kind of just the sound of the stadium as if people were mingling kind of looking for their seats inside bring in those chants again. Starting to kind of build up you know how you feel the game might sound as its live and then again that what i would be checking is my goal reaction. I can push it really loud or i could have a soft. Sometimes what can happen is you may think its a goal so you trigger the go sample how to do it. But then you realize as a commentator is speaking and explaining all you know unfortunately the player messed you oh ive. Got that wrong and we try to do for them trigger off and this reaction. And then kind of cover up the mistake. Despite the work going into the audio design of these games initially it looked like the fake sounds wouldnt catch on when the premier league resumed in june twitter was a mite somewhat skeptical phones. However 3 months after football returned to our screens the sky sports says that 75 percent of those watching at home that deafening clearly to me prefer the audio on hans. Over deciding i. Sports broadcasting is a big money Business Standard media index a company that tracks t. V. Ad spending in the United States as to makes that the suspension of just one league the National Basketball association or n. B. A. E. S. P. N. T. N. T. And a. B. C. Almost a quarter of a 1000000000. 00 to ensure advertisers would return and the fans continue to see value in their sports channel subscriptions some broadcasters have gone to lux they arent just making sounds of the life event they are using Reality Technology to create the visuals of the packed arena. I just logged on to what i think is going to be quite a bizarre experience the n. B. A. Is virtual fans of the league teamed up with microsoft to life dream supporters into the stands and i just took one of those virtual seats and means i can share on the players i can interact with all the other digital fans in the seats all while sitting on my sofa on the other side of the atlantic folk sports to get even further and further. Coverage of Major League Baseball is populated stadium with Computer Generated fans. Using graphical gaming engines we had visually replace the crowd in this wasnt to trick or for the audience into thinking there actually was a full crowd but just to normalize the experience and we felt that again his game presenters seeing that full stadium was something that the audience could appreciate however when you choose to visually replace crowds its exponentially more difficult because you need to accurately track all of the cameras make sure that you have laser scans of the stadiums to map the crowds in and then finally figure out how they should be reacting so there is a litany of complexity involved with that these visual developments are working with the developments inside. To try and get as close to reality the simulation of reality as possible they have had to give everybody the same the dedicated you or the casual. That this is where it is not an inferior its not to say it is a very. Clever you are just as real as any other kind of Television Program your willing to suspend disbelief. When it comes to manipulating the healing experience says some t. V. Networks. As a result of the pandemic leaks like the n. H. L. And the move to. Sports complexes that was turned into isolation. Of the entirety of the season. For. These fine. To dress up in the absence of any lives. And be a was able to. Camp out in a bubble so they were able to bring a lot of technology to bear and just stay there similarly for the w w e and theyve got under dome which is down in orlando they were able to acquire some residence there so number one i think is logistics number 2 its just depending on what the sport can bear for instance in nascar which was one of the other 1st sports that was back by not having fans allowed us to use camera angles that we hadnt used before so theres definitely some pluses and minuses in terms of. What youre able to do but the have been a lot of positives on the big wins its been the choice of being able to listen to the game the set the natural sound of the game i think what you get out of pickup is a lot of tactical conversations and i fascinating to people i have quite the old there and you can close how they go about coaching their teams on the bench. Its been 6 months since to go below downs again the coronavirus isnt going anywhere just yet and the time being only fans in the stands are going to be digital ones. For people tuning in from home despite the enhanced graphics and thinks sports programming never mix the heights of its condemning quantity. Because when it comes to televised sporting spectacle is not just about what the players playing for the poor its also about broadcasting in the crowd and playing for the game. And finally using makeup as a metaphor for the new coronavirus restrictions in the u. K. That have left the public confused british schools have now reopened people are slowly returning to work but the gatherings of more than 6 people have been forbidden unless for some reason you want to go hunting one influencer has taken to social media. Highlight just how absurd these guidelines are collect yoko for uses a makeup tutorial format that is growing Popular Online to show us how to use mascara for instance to simultaneously accentuate our eyes and the failures of Boris Johnsons government in handling this pandemic will see you next time here at the listening post high enough to make up tutorial before i thought why not do one now to show you the kind of look i go for for my eyes while ive got my mask on just want to put the can see. Over kind of eyebrow area when youre trying to conceive i want you to kind of think about the way the government kind of concealed the extent the magnitude of the pandemic in the weeks months leading up to lock down so it comes to like choosing my own shadow just. Treat it like the track and trace app that we were meant to have just kind of make a big deal about it over here and just kind of fade it fate is how so kind of make a big deal about everything and then just kind of like fade out around the sides next to go anywhere. And i love the scar its a kind of accentuate the eyes really want to accentuate it the way that we you know the government love to accentuate the migrant crisis and xenophobia generally whenever they need to have serious discussions about how this pandemic was handled and you know do braggs it so yeah just. 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