#Nabela Qoser

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Fifth senior official quits Hong Kong public broadcaster RTHK, April 27, 2021

HKFP: Broadcaster RTHK axes contract of reporter known for grilling Hong Kong officials, May 3, 2021

[trexjedi]

In support of Hong Kong journalist Nabela Qoser.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3103263/rthk-seeks-extend-probation-period-hong-kong-journalist

[banyun-gong]

Nabela Qoser (利君雅)

[immopengu]

Nabela Qoser throwing that FIREEEEEEEEEE

[we-tokyoboy]

聲光伴讀《為自己好 利君雅走罷啦》作者：邵韻如

Please Nabela Qoser !!!!!!!!

[cityineast]

HK beautiful and first non Chinese reporter - Ms Nabela Qoser 利君雅

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: RTHK tells reporter who asked tough questions of officials to accept short-term contract or face dismissal, January 22, 2021

HKFP: Video: RTHK staff union stages silent demo in support of journalist Nabela Qoser who grilled gov’t officials, January 28, 2021

HKFP: Hong Kong regulator rules that public broadcaster RTHK insulted police in satirical show, January 29, 2021

RTHK: RTHK pulls plug on BBC after mainland ban, February 12, 2021

RTHK: I followed Beijing's lead on BBC, says RTHK chief, February 18, 2021

RTHK: RTHK told to address its 'serious inadequacies', February 19, 2021

RTHK: RTHK has lost its editorial independence: union, February, 19, 2021

Despite remaining relatively independent throughout it’s history, and especially during the protest movements post-Handover it seems that RTHK is being forced to succumb to the party line. Factual neutrality and positioning as a critical body is being replaced with bureaucratic loyalty to the SAR and PRC government, neutrality being redefined as politically silent on matters now that civil servants must sign and swear pledges of loyalty. With journalists and producers being subject to complaints, disruptions to their employment, and even legal proceedings over their justifed journalistic work and techniques the future looks grim.

Any responsible public broadcaster is mandated--not as a propaganda and pro-government outlet--but to assist in representation for the underrepresented and serving the underprivileged, broadening social experience and access to knowledge, providing essential services such as news, covering public interest stories and media that would otherwise not reach broadcast on for-profit stations. Even having satirical programmes such as Headliner, provided a release valve for public distrust and tensions.

It is ridiculous to just toe the Chinese government’s line as a public media diet, let alone anything else under “one country, two systems”; or send out an ex-adviser on the government-controlled Board of Directors to say people can access international news broadcasts such as the BBC elsewhere. The latter loss of BBC broadcasts was in direct retaliation of the BBC’s reporting on the oppression of Uyghurs in China and the cancellation of the China Global Television Network (CCTV) by Ofcom over their direct connection to the CCP and failure to comply with impartiality statutes. Ofcom has stated they found CGTN’s licence-holder had no actual control or editorial responsibility for the programming.

The SAR government and Communications Authority has decided that the letter of the mandate they control the pursestrings and management for should be narrowed to hegemonic loyalty to themselves and the PRC. By handicapping RTHK’s ability to be independent of their politics, they’re explicitly limiting the broadcaster’s driving motive for the public good and the perspective horizons of their primary audience the Hong Kong people.

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading: 

HKFP: Producer of doc about police bailed on charges of making false statements to get public records, November 4, 2020

HKFP: RTHK exec. orders staffers’ computers unlocked in their absence amid probe into journalist – report, November 11, 2020

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam to host RTHK show aired 4 times a day, as embattled broadcaster axes other shows, April 27, 2021

HKFP: Hong Kong’s press freedom index sinks to all-time low amid security law, May 3, 2021

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Hong Kong Connection：7.21 Who Owns the Truth, October 30, 2020

A year on from the 7.21 incident, the narrative of what happened that night has morphed from an attack by white-clad men on ordinary people into a violent confrontation between men in white T-shirts and men wearing black. Hong Kong Connection reviewed CCTV and online footage from the day to look for clues and track down those captured on film in a bid to understand the truth as they told it.

RTHK

Further reading:

HKFP: RTHK reporter who grilled Hong Kong Chief Exec. Carrie Lam investigated again, probation extended, September 27, 2020

HKFP: Security law: Why staff at Hong Kong’s public broadcaster may face a choice between editorial independence and allegiance to the gov’t, October, 30, 2020