The reporter had deleted the message, so Worawit said he would not bring the matter up again.

“It is over. She deleted the message. She was sweet and now we [Daily News] are OK with it,” Worawit said.

According to ‘Rajdamnern’, the Thai Journalists Association (TJA)’s journal, the TV reporter deleted the message in a bid to end the dispute after Worawit, in response to her criticism, vowed onFacebook to file a suit against her.

The paper posted a series of pictures showing an injured motorist, Jenpop Weeraporn, lying on a hospital bed while authorities escorted him to Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Provincial Court.

On Sunday March 13, Jenpop was the driver of Mercedes-Benz that slammed into the back of a Ford sedan, killing two postgraduates. He was then admitted to Ayutthaya hospital.

Questions have been raised as to whether it was appropriate for the paper to run the picture. Some observers felt that showing it infringed on the patient’s rights, while others thought differently, according to ‘Rajdamnern’.

But the journal quoted Worawit, a former member of the now-defunct National Reform Council’s media reform committee, as saying that patients’ rights only apply to people in hospitals, while the pictures on his newspaper’s website showed the patient outside the hospital.

Meanwhile, former TJA president Prasong Lertratanawisute argued that patient’s rights applied to all patients no matter where they are, the journal said.

It said the National Press Council had sent letters regarding infringement of patients’ rights to media organisations.