KBS announced that KBS would conduct an audit of the announcer while it was pointed out that the KBS announcer had deleted and broadcast the contents unfavorable to the government and ruling party in the KBS1 radio news manuscript.
On the 1st, KBS Labor Union, a minority union, unveiled the’KBS1 Radio Polarization Distortion Broadcasting Survey Results’ and presented additional cases such as Kim Amugae announcer arbitrarily altering or deleting articles posted on the Qsheet. According to the radio news of announcer Kim from October to December of last year, more than 20 cases of announcer Kim’s arbitrary and random broadcast were found, and many of the edited articles on the cue sheet were deleted and disrespected.
KBS Labor Union announced that announcer Kim announced the prosecution’s investigation of key members of the Blue House in relation to the Lyme incident, the news of North Korea’s armed protests and the international community concerns, news of the rapid increase in new coronavirus cases, and news of the corona death of Koreans overseas It is claimed to have deleted and disrespected. The KBS Labor Union criticized that “the broadcast host has revealed its intention to side with the Blue House, pro-North Korea broadcast, block criticism of Kim Jong-un, and hide the failure to quarantine the corona.”
Prior to this, the KBS Labor Union claimed that in December of last year, announcer Kim delivered the news of the assault of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Yong-gu Lee, omitting some of the contents written in the manuscript and broadcasting it. On the 27th of last month, the KBS Labor Union accused announcer Kim of violating the Broadcasting Act.
KBS said in its position on the same day, “After a similar controversy occurred in December of last year, the company went through internal procedures such as the deliberation and evaluation committee and the labor-management defense defense, but as additional controversy arose, we decided to proceed with the audit process in earnest.”
KBS said, “Through this audit, we will clarify the facts and take strict measures if the relevant announcers and radio news editors are found to be in violation of all regulations.” We have been conducting 5 minute news broadcast on the radio. Immediately after controversy occurred in December, it was excluded from the work of radio news. Today, additional weekend radio programs were also stopped.”
“KBS has been preparing measures to prevent recurrence at the level of the press headquarters after the controversy over the radio news began in December last year. Some remedial measures are already being implemented.” He said, “We plan to stipulate discretionary rights and obligations for consultation by improving the fact that abbreviations and omissions due to time constraints have been conventionally performed when the announcer’s news progresses.
KBS added, “We plan to maintain a business manual so that the radio news editor can broadcast the news through pre-, post-, and real-time discussions with the announcer.”
Meanwhile, KBS Headquarters (Director Jae-woo Yoo), a majority union, said in December last year when the issue was raised, “In a situation where there is insufficient time to read, the host (announcer Kim) does not discuss the order of news or the amount of articles with the editor. Some paragraphs of the articles were shortened or omitted and broadcasted without being able to do so,” he said. “If there was a disagreement, I had to communicate with the editorial staff enough before the news.”
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