“Don’t forget where your funding comes from,” Prayut warned the station.

Speaking during an annual meeting of the National Economic and Social Development Board, the prime minister insisted that the government had made much progress during its two years in power but most media outlets did not report it.

Doing so makes the government look inactive and incompetent, he claimed.

“No matter how many of its [Thai PBS] directors are replaced, it is still the same because their staff thinks the same way,” he said. “I’m not asking you to be on the same side as me, but I want you to present the things the government did as well.”

He encouraged everyone to watch the state-run NBT channel to keep up to date on the government’s work.