Jiang Zemin, former president of the country and former general secretary of the Communist Party of China, passed away today (30th) in Shanghai.
Since Jiang Zemin withdrew from the political arena, his health has been concerned by the outside world. From time to time, it was reported that his health was not as good as before. In 2011, ATV in Spring Hong Kong even misreported his death. The news attracted international attention.
A day later, Xinhua News Agency issued an article to clarify and refute the rumors. In October of the same year, Jiang attended the 100th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 to break the rumors of his death.
After Xinhua News Agency published the article, ATV apologized to Jiang Zemin and his family for misreporting the death.
In response to the incident, ATV was fined 300,000 yuan by the then Broadcasting Authority for violating the news accuracy code.
Jiang Zemin is considered one of the more versatile Chinese leaders.
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On July 6, 2011, ATV exclusively reported the news of Jiang Zemin’s death. At 6:36 p.m. that day, the anchor read: “This station has just received news that former President Jiang Zemin died of illness at the age of 85. This station will have a special Please pay attention to the program.”
After the section of the news, it was mentioned that Jiang Zemin was 84 years old instead of 85 years old, and reviewed his life.
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ATV issued a statement the next day to apologize to Jiang Zemin and his family
The report immediately caused a sensation in Hong Kong, but there is no official information to confirm its authenticity.
Until the next day, at noon on July 7, Xinhua News Agency issued an article stating that the news of Jiang Zemin's death was purely a rumor and not true; at about 5 pm on the same day, ATV issued a statement withdrawing the report on Jiang Zemin's death and apologized to Jiang and his family.
At that time, it was widely rumored that Wang Zheng, a major shareholder of ATV who was related to Jiang Zemin, learned of Jiang Zemin's death only after watching ATV news.
ATV noticed the report issued by Xinhua News Agency at noon today, and withdrew its report on Mr. Jiang Zemin's death last night. We would like to apologize to the viewers, Mr. Jiang Zemin and his family.
ATV Statement July 7, 2011
Liang Jiarong, then senior vice president of ATV News Department, took the blame and resigned
Leung Ka Wing, the former director of broadcasting who was the senior vice president of ATV's news department at the time, resigned in September of the same year, and revealed that on the day of the false report of his death, he had tried his best, but still failed to prevent the news of his death from being broadcast.
After that, Weier Tam, the vice president of the news department, also resigned; another signed statement was issued as "a group of editors and editors of the news department of ATV", asking the investor Wang Zheng and the management to explain the incident, and promised not to interfere with the freedom of the press and editorial independence .
Leung Ka Wing, a veteran media person, was the head of the news department of TVB and ATV, and served as the director of broadcasting in 2015.
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The BA received 43 complaints that year, including allegations that the reports had caused public panic
Although ATV withdrew the report, the incident did not come to an end, and the Broadcasting Authority investigated the incident.
Looking through the documents of that year, the Broadcasting Authority received a total of 43 complaints as of September 14 of that year, alleging that the reports were unsubstantiated, misleading, causing confusion and panic to the public, and it took closer to 24 hours to withdraw the reports.
According to the investigation report of the Broadcasting Authority, after about 6:00 pm on July 6, Kwong Kaiying, the senior vice president (corporate development and external affairs) of ATV, called Wilfred Tam, saying that she had received reliable information about Jiang's death, and indicated that she would report it as soon as possible and promise to take responsibility .
Later, Leung Ka Wing and Tammy Tam hoped to have more time to verify the news, but Kwong requested to report it as soon as possible. As a result, although he did not verify the news from other channels, Leung also decided to report the news of Jiang's death.
As for Wang Zheng's role in the incident, the BA stated that there is no direct evidence to determine his role in the incident, but the BA will investigate Wang Zheng's role in the control and management of ATV.
In addition, the Broadcasting Authority believes that the complaints about inaccurate reporting of news and delay in correcting erroneous reports are valid, so it fined 300,000 yuan.
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