A cursory examination of the Thai press reveals things A history of censorship a times violently repressive, and ational content centered on crime news. Reporters, editors, and publishers have been threatened, intimidated, and murdered in an effort to control the print media while front pages are filled with stories of violent crime and gory photograp is paper explores both these forms of violence, censorship and crime news, to understand the relationship between the two. It argues that the preualence ofThe latter sensationalism- has resulted in ar from the former a historical process of increasingly murderous repression. So while t form and content of the print media in hailand, as elsewhere, follow the inancial mne ratio of the market and reflect trends in current events, the do so within a framework of aega, professio and informat relationships established oter twith seemingly unre utions, including the police