One nation under Cod..or else.

I've noticed, after going to various museums and cultural centres around Thailand that there isnt really a free media. The king is loved but it is hard to say if it's a case of 'love the king or else'. In the museums there will always be a positive spin on the end of all information posts. i.e. So-and-so, the ruler of the Eastern province came to power during a terrible famine when thousands of peasants starved to death. But, so-and-so is to be commended for opening the palace's grain supplies in an attempt to blah, blah. In one display detailing the kings who had ruled over the Chiang Mai area any good thing they did was listed. "King Philip of Lanna the Third set up schools, funded monasteries, helped pregnant transexual agrophobics improve their back-hand on the tennis court etc". but if all they did was go to war with someone and generally made a hash of things it just says, "King Bob went to war with the custard-cream biscuit tribe, now lets say no more about it shall we?"
It's a bit strange. If there was some complete shit-bag in Thailand's history you're not going to find out much about him here.
I was reading a Thai published magazine (presumably published for visitors as it was in English) and the editor was bemoaning this biasis and praising European notions of full disclosure saying that the Thai history taught in schools cuts off 100 years before the current date. How weird is that? That means it will be 2106 before Thai kids learn in school about the recent coup in Bangkok.