Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor Yang Shih-chiu (楊實秋) yesterday said that requests by the Media Monitor Alliance and the Taiwan Advertisers Association's (TAA) that advertisers cancel spots on two television news stations had political motivations.
"On April 17, the Media Monitor Alliance stated that CTI TV and ETToday's heavy coverage of pan-blue protests resulted in political unrest. It joined forces with the TAA to urge advertisers to cancel their spots on these two news stations from April 26 to May 15," Yang said at a press conference.
"These two groups also urged the public not to buy products advertised on the two stations," Yang said.
Yang said that the Media Monitor Alliance's secretary-general, Connie Lin (林育卉), and TAA head Kao Chih-ming's (高志明) pro-green camp stance explained their actions targeting the two stations.
"Lin is a long-time member of the Mainlander pro-independence group Goa-Sen-Lang Association for Taiwan Independence, as well as a former speechwriter for Vice President Annette Lu (
"Kao, the general manager of I-Mei Foods, is an advisor to and long-term supporter of President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁). Their political stance is crystal clear," he said.
Yang said that if the two organizations persisted in interfering with the TV stations' affairs, he would launch a boycott campaign against I-Mei's products as well as request that the Taipei City Government's Department of Information remove Lin as CEO of the Broadcasting Development Fund.
Lin said Yang's allegations were "nonsense."
"Yang has no idea what he's talking about," Lin said.
"First of all, the Broadcasting Development Fund is a private entity that has been registered with the government. Furthermore, Yang did not focus his arguments on the central issue," she said. "To conclude, I wish to say that whatever has transpired is a manifestation of the unhealthy political situation in Taiwan."
Kuan Chung-hsiang (
"As far as I know, the Media Monitor Alliance consists of many different civic groups, such as the Garden of Hope Foundation. So Yang's argument, which is mostly based on personal attacks against Lin or Kao, was quite weak. Just because these two individuals might be pro-green doesn't necessarily mean the groups they belong to are," Kuan said.
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