Thailand: Thaksin-Abhisit Media War.

Section: Editorial - From Post Today newspaper, Translated and edited by Wacharapol Isaranont As for the text-message service, Thaksin is targeting ten million subscribers and the number is just from his red-shirt supporters alone. He also aims to use the service to attract people who are in the grey area, politically neutral.

The SMS news feed is considered a powerful tool because it is easily accessible to people, considering almost everyone nowadays has a cellphone and the service, unlike those offered by other news agencies, is available free of charge. Short messages delivered to subscribers three times a day.

The new media weapon would fret the government to a …