MBC News Desk weather forecast report screen on the 27th. (MBC News Desk broadcast capture)/News 1
The People Power Party filed a complaint to the Korea Communications Standards Commission, alleging that MBC had blatantly campaigned for the election by using a graphic with a blue number ‘1’ reminiscent of the Democratic Party in its weather forecast. Caster said that the concentration of fine dust that day dropped to 1㎍/㎥ and said, “Right now next to me is a number bigger than my height. “Today, Seoul is 1.” Emergency committee chairman Han Dong-hoon said, “MBC has been broadcasting biased toward the Democratic Party, but this has crossed the line.”
The Election Broadcasting Deliberation Committee recently decided to impose ‘administrative guidance’ on SBS after a complaint was filed that a contestant did not add ‘Mrs.’ when commenting on the ‘Kim Kun-hee Special Prosecutor Act’. It would be problematic if he intentionally referred to Mrs. Kim as ‘Kim Geon-hee’, but what the actor was referring to was the bill, not Mrs. Kim. Many media outlets have collectively referred to it as the ‘Kim Kun-hee Special Prosecutor Act’. The official name of the bill is ‘A bill on the appointment of a special prosecutor to uncover the truth about the suspicions of manipulation of the stock price of Deutsche Motors by the President’s spouse, Kim Kun-hee’, and there is no word ‘Mrs.’
Sanctions against distorted reporting by public broadcasters are necessary. In particular, this is not the first time MBC has been criticized for its biased reporting. Experts also categorically reported the ‘Biden-if-you-fly’ remark, which was judged to be ‘impossible to judge’, but were ruled to correct the report by the court. MBC reported a weather forecast that said it would rain the day after the 2021 Seoul and Busan mayoral by-elections and titled it ‘I’m upset, but it’s okay’ with the Democratic Party’s symbol in the background. However, when controversy arose, they apologized and deleted the video. From the People Power Party’s perspective, it is worth raising doubts about this ‘1’ forecast. However, the priority is for viewers to decide in the public forum whether there is a problem with the report or not. We must be wary of appearing as if the powers that be are trying to control the media by mobilizing government agencies. This may end up giving impunity to broadcasting companies that often distort.
In the past, the Moon Jae-in administration said, “People have the freedom to criticize those in power,” but what it actually did was the exact opposite. A young man who put up a poster criticizing the president was put on trial on the absurd charge of ‘trespassing on a building’, and a young man who distributed leaflets criticizing the president at the National Assembly was directly sued by the president for insult. After a series of reports referred to First Lady Kim Jung-sook as Ms. Kim Jung-sook, she requested that she be written as ‘Mrs.’ President Yoon has said that he will guarantee freedom of expression more broadly than any previous government. However, the government’s response to broadcasting gives the impression that it is increasingly resembling the previous administration.
2024-03-03 18:12:00
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