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Written by: Kuang Xiaobin and Yuan Shu
2020-12-02 10:01
Last update date: 2020-12-02 10:03
Cable Broadband laid off 100 employees yesterday. Among them, about 40 people were laid off in the news channel, including Hong Kong news, finance, photographers, editing and other groups. All reporters on the investigative topic "News Stinger" were fired.
Lv Bingquan, a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism at Baptist University, said in a radio program today (2nd) that he felt heavy about the incident and pointed out that the cable employee who resigned yesterday was not a rash decision. He lamented the end of an era.
Yang Jianxing, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, pointed out that the management of the cable news station failed to explain the reasons. The layoffs should not be a financial factor in everyone's imagination, but invisible pressure.
He also quoted the wired interview with Chief Executive Carrie Lam, which was circulated yesterday, which was very different from previous interviews, which inevitably made people think of self-censorship.
On December 1, Huang Liping, the assistant picker of the China Cable Group, was one of the laid off employees. She was interviewed outside the cable TV building.
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Lv Bingquan, a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism of the Baptist University and former chief reporter of the China Cable Group, stated in the commercial channel program "Starting on a Sunny Day" today that Cable Broadband has cut 40 people in the Information Department due to economic and epidemic reasons. It is purely due to the epidemic and economic reasons, especially based on what has happened in Hong Kong in recent years. Beijing believes that under full governance, the position of public opinion is very important. Therefore, it is necessary to rectify the media and rectify the source.
He said that he had followed some media bosses on visits to the mainland. Some bosses pointed out to the mainland provinces and ministers that setting up a media organization in Hong Kong is a national responsibility and hopes that business in the mainland will be facilitated.
Lu Bingquan said that he felt heavy about the incident and pointed out that the cable employees who resigned yesterday did not make a decision lightly, but lamented the end of an era.
He pointed out that the happy news department atmosphere where Cable News used to do news consistently was very scarce in Hong Kong.
Yang Jianxing, chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, said in an interview with the TV and TV program "Millenniums" that the management of the cable news station failed to explain the reasons for the layoffs, and it was difficult for the staff to accept it. Financial-related invisible pressure.
He also pointed out that the cable news station is a 30-year-old brand with a good reputation and is very unhappy about the incident.
Lv Bingquan, the former chief reporter of the China Cable Group, lamented that it was the end of an era.
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Regarding the dismissal of all reporters from "News Needle", Yang Jianxing believes that the media management does not want the media to "need" or avoid gains and losses from some bosses. Nowadays, information is exploding. Some online media also focus on investigative reports. News media emphasize unique selling points. It’s not that "people have, I have," it shows the importance of investigative reports on the "News Needle" program.
Yesterday, there was an internal video of a cable interview with Carrie Lam. Carrie Lam said with a smile that the host’s problem was mild, and the host responded that: "If you tighten the second quarter, you will be hard." Carrie Lam then said: "Don't blame me news Secretary, good cooperation, good cooperation, good cooperation, good cooperation".
Regarding the above snippet, Yang Jianxing described that the cable news has interviewed Carrie Lam in the past, but the method is very different. The recent interview is inevitably reminiscent of self-censorship.
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