When the medium is the menace - Taiwan

Television viewers last Saturday witnessed violence committed by pan-blue demonstrators, who insanely attacked police officers maintaining order on Ketagalan Boulevard with slingshots and sticks and threw Molotov cocktails, fire extinguishers and rocks. Journalists documenting the event also fell victim to the crowd's brutality. Our law does not tolerate such barbarism. We urge judicial authorities to speed up their investigation so that the outlaws who commit-ted crimes that night can be put behind bars.

According to police accounts, dozens of citizens and law enforcement officers were injured that day, including a dozen photographers and reporters, some of them women. These brutal beatings startled television audiences. By yesterday, Taipei police had gathered concrete evidence showing that at least two protesters who encouraged other demonstrators to attack the police and journalists belong to organized crime groups.

In this light, we can see that some gangs had been waiting for an opportune moment to take action in order to benefit from the political turmoil. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Secretary-General Lin Feng-cheng (???) even made a slanderous accusation that pan-green supporters mingled in the crowd and incited the violence. It is impossible for the people of Taiwan to accept such a trumped-up charge.

In retrospect, the disorder in the wake of the presidential election can be traced back to the Taiwanese media. News organizations did not act according to professional ethics, but instead reported inflated opinion polls conducted with specific political motives. On election day, in their competition for ratings, many TV news programs reported fraudulent vote figures showing that the pan-blue camp led by a large margin. The reported results were completely inconsistent with those reported by the Central Election Commission (???), which showed that the green camp won the election by a slim margin. In a few hours, the public, and especially pan-blue supporters who had believed these false media reports, went from self-confidence to surprised disappointment. It was therefore unavoidable that they would suspect the government of vote-rigging, without being able to see that the incident was the result of inflated figures reported by TV-stations.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/04/14/2003136626

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