【香菊日誌(六)】
前中時記者：人生總有非賣品 我拒絕旺中老闆保衛戰
There is a big news recently, the possibility of mass media monopolization in Taiwan. The event origins to one of the biggest mass media called “Want Want China Times Group” wanted to merge and acquired another mass media called “Next TV”, which might cause the problem of monopolization. I did not realize it is a serious enough problem for me to follow and care about until I saw my friends continuously transmitting articles on the internet.
One of the articles being transmitted which roused me to pay attention to the issue is written by a former reporter of “China Times”. She was a reporter who just joined The China Times for about one year and was indicated to write a report for the monopolization protest by students last month. Since she was afraid that the senior officers might ask her to write a report which is not neutral, she started the report after getting the officers’ promise. However, what she saw on the newspaper next day was her report with two paragraphs added, which totally change her standpoint and the fact. She could not know who added the paragraphs because she is the only editor on the newspaper. She took the action to remonstrate with the officers but did not get a direct answer. After then, when the cyber friends noticed the distort report they started to cyber manhunt the innocent reporter, which made the reporter decide to quite the job.
