Thai coverage

Has anyone else found this to be totally inadequate by the Irish media?

I learned a lot this evening from the channel 4 broadcast and from googling the facts but let's just look at what we have seen on Irish news, both print and broadcasted.

There are plenty of 'pictures', and we are told of the facts that the reds are holding up and the army is fighting them and has a shoot to kill after curfew etc etc

But we haven't been told why any of this is occuring...
I remember when the previous president was ousted it was mentioned often enough that he was a billionaire business man and there were concerns of corruption but since the present uprest there has been no explanation of why the 'reds' are unhappy with the coup, why the want the former president reinstated and why there are those who oppose them.

Now I have said that I learned slight more from channel 4, they told us that originally the reds were farmers from the north but they have taken on a more sinister element in the last few weeks.

All this information is available to anyone who is willing to search for it but my point is that the mainstream media (and I loathe to start a thread against the meeja), are neglecting to tell the actual political story, the unbiased and informative news reports, but instead are revelling in the fact that they have great footage to show and have a group of people that they can call 'the reds'.

Where are these field journalists who can infrom and impress us, I'm sure they are always there but is it the fact that it just doesn't make good telly to get too technical??