THREE EXAMPLES: The associations cited CTi reporter Chen Yun-wen’s departure, an order to blacklist a Storm Media reporter and a threat over an HIV/AIDS list as proof
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 09, 2018
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) yesterday said he would never suppress
Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je, right, and Taipei City Government spokesman Liu Yi-ting yesterday take part in a question-and-answer session at the Taipei City Council. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times
reporters, after the International Federation of Journalists and its affiliated Association of Taiwan Journalists on Tuesday said that the Taipei City Government had intervened with reporting three times in less than a year.
The associations released a joint statement condemning the city government for “harassing journalists” and “intervening with media reports and investigations,” citing three cases as evidence.
The most recent case involved Ko’s inconsistent claims about controversial statements he made in a speech at the Taipei-Shanghai Forum in Shanghai in July last year: “The two sides of the [Taiwan] Strait are one family” and “a community with a shared destiny.”
Ko said he had sent a draft of his speech to the National Security Council (NSC) before the trip, but did not receive a response. [FULL STORY]
