Threatening a journalist = big deal; Threatening an academic = not a big deal?

Threatening a journalist = big deal; Threatening an academic = not a big deal?:
Last year, a red shirt supporter threatened a journalist as blogged at the time:

Then thongk on August 22 at the pro-red Internet Freedom posted (website banned in Thailand, but you can see the initial post here) stating the person who asked Yingluck the question was a Ch 7 reporter and then gives her name and claims she is in the Nation Group and hosts a radio program with the former editor of Naew Na. Then posts the same picture from the Seri Thai post of the reporter. The poster states “remember her face, if you see her then attack/get her”  จำหน้าหล่อนไว้นาคับ เห็นที่ไหนก็จัดให้หน่อยก็แล้วกันครับ),
Other posters pile in basically copying and pasting some of the content from the Seri Thai Forum noting the books she had written etc,  making snide comments about her appearance, and her previous work.
BP: Thongk purports to be a man and from what BP understands that Pornthip Paksanont, a female red shirt leader in Phetchaburi, then copied and pasted the contents of the post by thongk into an e-mail and forwarded it on as all references in the press to the threat is the one made by thongk – see Post Today report.

Elizabeth Fitzgerald at New Mandala has translated the threat made last week by multi-colored shirt leader Dr. Tul towards Professor Somsak Jeamteerasakul:

…Dr. Tul’s precise words were  “Somsak Jeamteerasakul, 112 can be abolished. Then you and your kind can meet with a .358, as you wish. I don’t want to hear any explanations from you anymore” [“สมศักดิ์ เจียมธีรสกุล เลิก 112 ให้ก็ได้ แล้วมึงกับพวกเอา .358 ไปก็แล้วกัน กูไม่อยากฟังคำอธิบายใดๆจากมึงอีกแล้ว”]. What one immediately notices is that Dr. Tul is specific in his threat. He does not simply suggest that Professor Somsak be shot, he also names the precise kind of gun, a .358, which is a high-caliber rifle designed to inflict mortal wounds…..

BP: As Elizabeth notes, Dr. Tul later wrote that he doesn’t have a .358 so Somsak doesn’t have to worry about being shot, but still the initial statement by Dr. Tul was a clear threat.  Whether it meets the legal standard of a threat is unclear as he doesn’t say “I will…”, but compared to the threat made by the red shirt last year, this one is more specific and given the nature of the weapon, well deadly…..
There were dozens of stories and editorials about the threat by the red shirt. However, for Dr. Tul’s threat, the only news stories have been limited to Matichon group of papers -  Matichon and Khao Sod. Why?