A private media watchdog group associated with the pro-independence movement yesterday urged people not to watch news produced by CTiTV, saying the station's coverage is biased and that there is no sign that it is trying to improve this tendency.
Taiwan Bugle Society chairman Chung Nien-huang (鍾年晃) and political commentator Frances Huang (黃光芹) yesterday held a press conference criticizing CTiTV's failure to respond to the group's previous criticism.
Ten days ago, the group asked CTiTV to address its "partisan and unbalanced" news coverage of the campaign to depose President Chen Shui-bian (
Chung said CTiTV has yet to show any intention of reacting to this request and has continued to show biased coverage of the anti-Chen campaign.
During the press conference, Chung played TV news footage broadcast by CTiTV news on Sept. 9, the first day that the anti-Chen campaign began, and drew attention to the fact that the station said that the number of rally participants increased from 200,000 to 300,000 in only seven seconds.
The group also criticized CTiTV talk show host Sisy Chen (
"It is ridiculous for a person who resorts to violence to blast the evil of violence," Chung said.
"It is obvious that CTiTV attempts to overstate the impact of the anti-Chen campaign, and has tried to add fuel to the flames," he said. "We urge the advertisers to boycott news produced by CTiTV and viewers not to watch CTiTV."
Huang also said that CTiTV's chief news editor Liao Fu-shun (
"How can we believe it when CTiTV claims it has no specific political stance?" Huang said.
In response, CTiTV said it would not react to an appeal that it considers "far from objective."
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