“The KBS announcer read the article except for the content that was unfavorable to the ruling party”

The KBS Radio News announcer randomly omits and reads the manuscripts written by reporters that are likely to be disadvantageous to the ruling party. On the 22nd of this fact, the KBS Labor Union issued a criticism statement saying,’President Seung-dong Yang and Auditor Kim Young-hun should immediately thank the situation.’

According to the KBS Labor Union on the day, in the news at 2 pm on the KBS1 radio broadcast on the 19th, announcer Kim Mo skipped the suspicion of the opposition lawmaker’s’watching investigation’, which was originally included in the article, while delivering the breaking news of the assault of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu. did.

The original plaintiff disclosed by the KBS union was a brief report of the assault case of a taxi driver by Lee, and if there was a case of sentencing without closing the internal affairs even though it was agreed among the cases of assaulting a taxi or bus driver during a stop by Rep. The case was an obvious caring investigation,” he said. However, Announcer Kim omitted this part. The contents of the opposition lawmaker’s remarks as’I claimed’ were also changed by announcer Kim to’I was confused’.

Announcer Kim said in a single article about the assault case by Lee, saying, “The taxi driver reported to the police with the intent that a drunk passenger is doing a bad job, and the police dispatched to the scene confirmed Lee’s identity and decided to investigate later. I didn’t read’I sent it back’.

In addition, announcer Kim found that the opposition lawmaker’s argument against candidate Kwon Deok-cheol of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who is ahead of the hearing, was also randomly omitted from the news. The original manuscript stated,’They sold Daechi Apartment in Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, which was bought for 410 million won in 2010, for 880 million won in 2018, and made a profit of 470 million won… In particular, it has been confirmed that candidate Kwon has never lived in a specially sold apartment in Sejong City.’

According to the KBS union, announcer Kim didn’t say anything to the broadcast production crew about his changing news content even after the broadcast. The KBS union emphasized that “the deleted manuscript is highly likely to be disadvantageous to the ruling party,” and emphasized that “such a broadcasting behavior is a behavior that cannot exist as a public broadcasting broadcaster.” In addition, he said, “President Seung-dong Yang and Auditor Kim Young-heon hope that the audit will be initiated immediately and the results will be disclosed to the public.”

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