The foundation appointed by the government to evaluate the media's performance in covering news yesterday insisted that it would still carry out the task, even if the government didn't support it.
The comment came after the Cabinet yesterday abandoned a controversial Government Information Office (GIO) proposal to evaluate the media's performance.
"The incident motivates me to closely watch the media's performance," said Lu Shih-xiang (盧世祥), founder of the Foundation for the Advancement of Media Excellence (新聞公害防治基金會), which was appointed by the GIO for the NT$950,000 project.
"Most of the reports on this controversy do not include our opinions, which means they failed to balance their reports," he said.
He also said that most of the reports on the matter had failed to name and confirm their sources.
"As a retired journalist, I understand some sources decline to be identified, but clearly naming sources is the most basic task of journalists," Lu said.
Lu gave the example of a China Times article published on Tuesday suggesting that political considerations had influenced the decision to choose the foundation to monitor the media. The story quoted an anonymous source from the National Press Council of the ROC, which has been doing the job for the GIO for the past few years.
The National Press Council, founded in 1974, focused on violent and pornographic content rather than political bias in news.
On Feb. 18, the council lost out to the foundation, which was set up last year, for the monitoring project .
Fang Nien-hsuan (
Fang said that the media had mistakenly reported that two professors had judged the bids, showing that the reporters had failed to confirm their facts.
Four factors led to the declaration of a typhoon day and the cancelation of classes yesterday, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said. Work and classes were canceled across Taiwan yesterday as Typhoon Krathon was forecast to make landfall in the southern part of the country. However, northern Taiwan had only heavy winds during the day and rain in the evening, leading some to criticize the cancelation. Speaking at a Taipei City Council meeting yesterday, Chiang said the decision was made due to the possibility of landslides and other problems in mountainous areas, the need to avoid a potentially dangerous commute for those
There are 77 incidents of Taiwanese travelers going missing in China between January last year and last month, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. More than 40 remain unreachable, SEF Secretary-General Luo Wen-jia (羅文嘉) said on Friday. Most of the reachable people in the more than 30 other incidents were allegedly involved in fraud, while some had disappeared for personal reasons, Luo said. One of these people is Kuo Yu-hsuan (郭宇軒), a 22-year-old Taiwanese man from Kaohsiung who went missing while visiting China in August. China’s Taiwan Affairs Office last month said in a news statement that he was under investigation
PRO-CHINA SLOGANS: Two DPP members criticized police officers’ lack of action at the scene, saying that law enforcement authorities should investigate the incident Chinese tourists allegedly interrupted a protest in Taipei on Tuesday held by Hong Kongers, knocked down several flags and shouted: “Taiwan and Hong Kong belong to China.” Hong Kong democracy activists were holding a demonstration as Tuesday was China’s National Day. A video posted online by civic group Hong Kong Outlanders shows a couple, who are allegedly Chinese, during the demonstration. “Today is China’s National Day, and I won’t allow the displaying of these flags,” the male yells in the video before pushing some demonstrators and knocking down a few flagpoles. Radio Free Asia reported that some of the demonstrators
An aviation jacket patch showing a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh has become popular overseas, including at an aviation festival held by the Japan Air Self-Defense Force at the Ashiya Airbase yesterday. The patch was designed last year by Taiwanese designer Hsu Fu-yu (徐福佑), who said that it was inspired by Taiwan’s countermeasures against frequent Chinese military aircraft incursions. The badge shows a Formosan black bear holding a Republic of China flag as it punches Winnie the Pooh — a reference to Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) — who is dressed in red and is holding a honey pot with
RSS