Free Press Not So Free in Taiwan From the Taipei Times Thursday, May 7, 2009 (page 8) By Leon Chuang 莊豐嘉 A few days ago, US-based Freedom House released a global survey entitled Freedom of the Press 2009 in which Taiwan’s press freedom ranking fell by 11 places from last year’s list. It was no surprise that Taiwan’s ranking dropped, but the size of the fall is much greater than expected and very worrying. More worrying still is the fact that Hong Kong has been relegated from the “free” category to “partly free.” The lesson is that if Taiwan’s media cannot resist penetration by China, Taiwan will before long go the same way as Hong Kong. Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and his government should bear full responsibility for this black mark on the record of their first year in office. Unfortunately, all of them — from Ma to the Government Information Office — have brushed it off, saying rather unconvincingly that they would look into the matter. Their reaction is evidence of a gui
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