Through the procedures of the Korean Communications Standards Commission’s ‘Fake News Rapid Discussion Center’ (hereafter referred to as the Center), it was revealed that 7 out of 9 broadcasts submitted for ‘rapid consideration’ were MBC broadcasts such as ‘Shin Jang-sik’s News High Kick’ and ‘MBC News Desk’. Most of the broadcasts in question have political content that mentions former Minister Han Dong-hoon and President Yoon Seok-yeol, and are broadcasts that conservative political parties and organizations such as the People Power Party and the National Fair Media Coalition has publicly announced. that they will file complaints with the Korea Communications Standards Commission.
▲ Korea Communications Standards Commission’s ‘Fake News Rapid Review Center’. Photo = Reporter Park Jae-ryeong
As a result of Media Today’s comment, most of the items on the agenda for which the Korea Communications Standards Commission was subject to ‘rapid consideration’ were broadcast by MBC. MBC Radio’s ‘Shin Jang-sik’s News High Kick’ had the most with 4, followed by ‘MBC News Desk’ (3). In addition, KBS Radio’s ‘Joo Jin-woo Live’ and ‘I Want to Know That’ each had one case.
These are all complaints received at the ‘Fake News Rapid Review Centre’, which ended last month’s operation, and were confirmed as items for rapid review after receiving suggestions from ‘the chairman only’ or ‘more than a third of the registered members’. According to the Korea Communications Standards Commission, it takes about 10 months from receiving a complaint into consideration, but the relevant items were submitted in about 1.5 months.
All nine items on the agenda were proposed by members of the ruling party’s recommendations committee. It was submitted to the fast-track review process in three ways: three members, Hwang Seong-wook, Heo Yeon-hoe, and Kim Woo-seok (recommended by the People Power Party), four members including Chairman Ryu Hee -rim (recommended by President Yoon Seok-yeol), and Chairman Ryu Hee-rim’s proposal only.
The Korean Communications Standards Commission will start rapid discussion through the Broadcasting Discussion Subcommittee (Broadcasting Subcommittee) three times in the future. In the next broadcast subcommittee, ‘MBC News Desk Report on the second release of contaminated water from Fukushima’ (October 3, 2023) and KBS’s ‘Joo Jin-woo Live’ scene of Democratic Party founder Kim Eui-gyeom will be talk about the Minister’s comments. Justice Han Dong-hoon (September 22, 2023) Intentionally.
In the next meeting, the SBS broadcast ‘I Want to Know That’ was about Fifty Fifty (August 19, 2023), ‘Shin Jang-sik’s News High Kick’, Minister Han Dong-hoon’s comments on whether to propose a review to the National Compensation Act (October 24, 2023), and ‘MBC News’ Desk ‘Korea Communications Standards Commission plans to speed up review of MBC report on imposition of fines (November 13, 2023).
After that, ‘MBC News Desk’ carrot knife report (November 21, 2023), Shin Jang-sik’s ‘News High Kick’ interview with Newstapa reporter Bong Ji-wook (October 31, 2023), ‘News High Kick Shin Jang-sik ‘ President Yoon Seok-yeol talks about commercial banks Comments on ‘Preparing measures against oppression’ (November 1, 2023), ‘Shin Jang-sik’s News High Kick’ and host comments on President Yoon Seok-yeol’s price policy ( November 6, 2023) , etc., ‘Fake news consideration’ through the middle It is finished.
▲Screen capture from the MBC News Desk report from October 3rd.
Among the 9 agendas for rapid discussion, 7 agendas, excluding the SBS ‘I Want to Know’ Fifty Fifty broadcast and the News Desk ‘Carrot Knife’ report, are ‘political discussion’ agendas that have interests in the party control, such as the government and the People’s Power Party. In fact, the broadcast of MBC News Desk (October 3, 2023) and the broadcast of KBS Joo Jin-woo Live (September 22, 2023), which were the first to be discussed quickly, were held by ‘Fake News and the People’s Power Party. Ghost Story Prevention Special Committee’ (Chairman Kim Jang-gyeom) Raised the matter publicly and warned that they would file a complaint with the Korea Communications Standards Commission.
Other items on the agenda are broadcasts that the National Fair Media Association, a conservative group, announced through weekly monitoring and would file a complaint with the Korea Communications Standards Commission, accusing them of being biased and distorted broadcasts. In particular, ‘Shin Jang-sik’s News High Kick’ interview with Newstapa reporter Bong Ji-wook (October 31, 2023) and ‘MBC News Desk’ report on MBC fines by Korea Communications Standards Commission (November 13, 2023) were conducted by union conservative labor MBC 3rd and MBC New Reporters Association and others have raised issues publicly, saying it is a biased broadcast.
The broadcast ‘News High Kick’ (October 24, 2023), which discussed whether Minister Han Dong-hoon proposed a revision to the National Compensation Act, was directly defined by the Ministry of Justice as “false encouragement.” In fact, the ‘Fake News Rapid Review Centre’ has become a ‘complaint processing window’ for conservatives, including the ruling party.
It was confirmed that, with the exception of the nine cases mentioned, no broadcasts are currently going through the ‘quick review’ process.
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On the 21st of last month, the Korean Communications Standards Commission announced that it would end operation of the center on the 31st of last month and switch to a permanent rapid review from 2024. The Korean Communications Standards Commission claimed that it would ‘switching to ‘permanent rapid review’ because he had successfully established and implemented the rapid review process, but workers protested even before the center was launched, and after it was launched, it faced strong opposition, including together. signatures from 11 team leaders and 150 rank-and-file employees.
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