共產黨的 PROPAGANDA 太厲害了！
A routine Taiwanese legislative hearing onChinese government advertising activities inTaiwan revealed alarming evidence that thecommunist government paid some of Taiwan’s leading newspapers to produce pro-mainland news coverage.
A legislator from Taiwan’s opposition Democratic Progressive Party at the hearing on regulatory compliance played an audio recording of a secretly picked up conversation between the propaganda bureau chief of China’s Xiamen city government in Fujian province, across the 100-mile Taiwan Strait from the island, and a Taiwanese reporter posing as a non-media representative.
In the recording, the reporter asked the propaganda chief whetherXiamen paid Taiwanese newspapers for news coverage.
The official not only said “yes” but also explained how it was done.
Chen Xianghua, the propaganda chief, stated, according to a transcript of the recording, that the Xiamen government and some of Taiwan’s newspapers signed contracts to buy news coverage. The papers were paid through wire transfers from the Xiamen government after invoices and receipts were sent to Xiamen officials.
China Times, an influential Taiwanese newspaper owned by an overtly pro-China tycoon, Cai Yanming, was identified as an egregious example of the “paid news coverage.”
At issue was China Times‘ coverage of a recent five-day visit to the island democracy by the governor of Fujian province, where the Chinese People’s Liberation Army has deployed a large concentration of missile and other military forces ready to attack Taiwan.
While most newspapers’ coverage was balanced in reporting the governor’s visit, China Times‘ reports poured on unusually lavish praise and put a positive spin on the event.
In the secretly recorded conversation, China Times was mentioned specifically as having received payments of Chinese money in exchange for positive news coverage.
The incumbent KMT government announced it would investigate China Times for possible regulatory violations.
Taiwan is not the only state targeted by Chinese influence-peddling.
