Nor were the print media completely free from influence. Newspapers had been warned to apply their own self censorship, and this some did to some extent. However, when the going got rough, the self-censorship imposed by the Bangkok Post on Monday 18 May, when one-half of pages two and three, where normally local news and editorial comment were to have been placed were left blank, was hardly the sort of self-censorship that the government had in mind.