Is the Say of ‘Hong Kong Media Good; Mainland Media Bad’ Completely True?
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Is the Say of ‘Hong Kong Media Good; Mainland Media Bad’ Completely True?
Although the rank of freedom of Hong Kong media is much higher than that of China, there are some exceptions to the general rule which states Hong Kong media are free whereas the mainland media are not free.
On 6 June 12, a Tianamen Square dissident, Li Wangyang was found to commit suicide by hanging himself in the Hunan hospital without leaving any note. The suspect of Li's death evokes all Hong Kong media to report the news at length, and hence the reporter of South China Morning Post Alex Price ran a full story about Li's death. However, Wang Xiangwei, the newly appointed editor-in-Chief of SCMP, reduced it into a brief just before the issue of newspaper without informing him. Price wondered the reason and emailed Wang, but Wang didn’t give any reasonable response and said Price knows what to do if he doesn’t like this. It is believed that self-censorship was practiced because Wang is mainland born, and is a member of the Jilin Provincial CPPCC. Beijing has influence on the issue, and hence it makes people suspect the neutrality of SCMP.
Another example to show Beijing’s influence over the Hong Kong media is that a ShingPao column about the selection of Hong Kong Chief Executive was edited to totally different point of view from the columnist in order to show support to one of the candidates, Leung Chung Ying, who regards as Pro-China candidate. The column was actually written by the columnist Lau Yui-siu whose column titled originally ‘Neither of them is the best candidate for the post of Chief Executive’ but then was changed to ‘Leung is better than Tong’. The original conclusion of the column is, it is no worth to support both of them, the fight between them doesn't help their rule of Hong Kong but worsen and this only makes people getting bad feeling on politics. However, it was edited to the version that, it is no worth to support Tong; Leung is the
Is the Say of ‘Hong Kong Media Good; Mainland Media Bad’ Completely True?
Although the rank of freedom of Hong Kong media is much higher than that of China, there are some exceptions to the general rule which states Hong Kong media are free whereas the mainland media are not free.
On 6 June 12, a Tianamen Square dissident, Li Wangyang was found to commit suicide by hanging himself in the Hunan hospital without leaving any note. The suspect of Li's death evokes all Hong Kong media to report the news at length, and hence the reporter of South China Morning Post Alex Price ran a full story about Li's death. However, Wang Xiangwei, the newly appointed editor-in-Chief of SCMP, reduced it into a brief just before the issue of newspaper without informing him. Price wondered the reason and emailed Wang, but Wang didn’t give any reasonable response and said Price knows what to do if he doesn’t like this. It is believed that self-censorship was practiced because Wang is mainland born, and is a member of the Jilin Provincial CPPCC. Beijing has influence on the issue, and hence it makes people suspect the neutrality of SCMP.
Another example to show Beijing’s influence over the Hong Kong media is that a ShingPao column about the selection of Hong Kong Chief Executive was edited to totally different point of view from the columnist in order to show support to one of the candidates, Leung Chung Ying, who regards as Pro-China candidate. The column was actually written by the columnist Lau Yui-siu whose column titled originally ‘Neither of them is the best candidate for the post of Chief Executive’ but then was changed to ‘Leung is better than Tong’. The original conclusion of the column is, it is no worth to support both of them, the fight between them doesn't help their rule of Hong Kong but worsen and this only makes people getting bad feeling on politics. However, it was edited to the version that, it is no worth to support Tong; Leung is the