#PressFreedom #RTHK
Li Biased against Public Affairs Department and Asked, ”Why aren’t we interviewing Raymond Cho”
Insiders from RTHK revealing Li repeatedly stressed that he was the Chief Editor of the channel who had the responsibility to ensure the fairness and the impartiality of their programs. He stated that “if you can’t pass my impartiality test, your programme can’t go on air”. Knowing LMF being interviewed at Hong Kong Stories, Li said that LMF was not a decent guest for a public broadcasting organisation like RTHK because they often cursed in their songs. He even played one of their songs, asking the meeting attendees to count the swear words in the song and questioning why another kind of voice was not sourced. Li described LMF as showing extreme political stance and saying their song as “Gil of organs”.
The insider added that Li was quite demanding even though RTHK should produce a broad spectrum of programs. “It is like all or nothing (and it makes you) feel like he doesn’t mind to withdraw a program and replace it with another.” Rumour was it that Li was obviously targeting the Public Affairs Department and the editorial freedom came from the bottom level. There has never been a Director of Broadcasting who demanded to approve of the programs before airing, arousing suspicion of political censorship.
#PublicAffairsDepartment #LMF #PatrickLi #DirectorofBroadcasting #EditorialFreedom #Censorship
Source: Apple Daily #Mar04
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20210304/B3OIXJ5NKZCL5JFH7PQZA6NMTY/
Li Biased against Public Affairs Department and Asked, ”Why aren’t we interviewing Raymond Cho”
Insiders from RTHK revealing Li repeatedly stressed that he was the Chief Editor of the channel who had the responsibility to ensure the fairness and the impartiality of their programs. He stated that “if you can’t pass my impartiality test, your programme can’t go on air”. Knowing LMF being interviewed at Hong Kong Stories, Li said that LMF was not a decent guest for a public broadcasting organisation like RTHK because they often cursed in their songs. He even played one of their songs, asking the meeting attendees to count the swear words in the song and questioning why another kind of voice was not sourced. Li described LMF as showing extreme political stance and saying their song as “Gil of organs”.
The insider added that Li was quite demanding even though RTHK should produce a broad spectrum of programs. “It is like all or nothing (and it makes you) feel like he doesn’t mind to withdraw a program and replace it with another.” Rumour was it that Li was obviously targeting the Public Affairs Department and the editorial freedom came from the bottom level. There has never been a Director of Broadcasting who demanded to approve of the programs before airing, arousing suspicion of political censorship.
#PublicAffairsDepartment #LMF #PatrickLi #DirectorofBroadcasting #EditorialFreedom #Censorship
Source: Apple Daily #Mar04
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20210304/B3OIXJ5NKZCL5JFH7PQZA6NMTY/