CtiTV anchor and reporter Lin Chen-you has been detained on suspicion of conducting espionage activities for China. Lin primarily covers political affairs...
The KMT has sought to use similar tactics for Taiwan’s NCC, as it has aimed to do with the Constitutional Court. That is, the KMT has tried to freeze the NCC by mandating that the NCC cannot function without a minimum quorum of members then blocking any appointments that the Lai administration seeks to make to the NCC...
A proposal by the KMT to allow the government, political parties, and the military to indirectly invest in up to 10% of broadcast media proves an unusual proposal. This proves particularly ironic at a time when the KMT has frequently attacked successive DPP presidential administrations over the claim that the DPP clamps down on media through the regulatory body of the National Communications Commission...
A recent Financial Times report has made waves in Taiwan, seeing as the report states that the Want Want Group-owned China Times newspaper, as well as the Want Want-owned CTV and CtiTV television networks, are directly seeking approval from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office before running some stories...
A demonstration against so-called “red media” was held yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard, “red media” referring to increasing Chinese influence in Taiwanese media. According to organizers, 100,000 attended, despite rain...
Anger against CTi News is on the rise, particularly among youth activists, with rising concerns that the television news network is spreading fake news in order to benefit the KMT in 2020 elections...
With critics of wrongdoing in China increasingly disappearing, who is it that will dare speak out against China in the future? No one, nowhere seems off limits anymore. More generally, we can point to a renewed offensive on press freedom in China, including renewed attempts at “Media Monopoly" and crackdowns on foreign journalists....
