Is China trying to control Taiwan's media?

Posted By Blake Hounshell Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 2:30 PM Share

Via the China Digital Times, a worrisome tale from Taiwan:

The [state-run Radio Taiwan International] chairman and four other colleagues on the 15-member board submitted their collective resignation in the wake of news reports that the KMT government, notably the Government Information Office, and KMT lawmakers had put intense pressure on [the chairman] and RTI management to change its news and programming management.

According to Taiwan media reports, GIO officials cited reports by the Guangzhou-based "Global Daily" (Huanqiu shibao), an internationally-directed subsidiary of the PRC's official "People's Daily," that "the independence faction controlled the voice of Taiwan to attack Ma Ying-jeou" and called on RTI management to "make improvements."

Chilling.

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