Since the end of last year, the ’20th Presidential Election Unfair Broadcasting National Surveillance Group’ (hereinafter referred to as the National Watch Group, Chairman Choi Cheol-ho), which has been monitoring major news and current affairs programs of five public broadcasters (KBS, MBC, Yonhap News TV, YTN, TBS), is the ruling party. It is noteworthy that news program hosts, producers, and broadcasting company presidents, who have been criticized for undermining the neutrality of broadcasting due to friendly conduct, announced their plan to report to the Korea Communications Standards Commission for violating the Election Broadcasting Deliberation Regulations, or to file a complaint for violating the Public Official Election Act.
On the 28th, the National Guard said, “Many people who have seen the results of monitoring for two months are saying that the biased and distorted broadcasting of public broadcasters far exceeds the level of the military dictatorship of the past.” Many people are outraged that this is happening after former members of the National Press Workers’ Union (hereinafter referred to as the Press Union), who have been shouting common sense and harshly criticizing the conservative government, have effectively seized the management rights of five public broadcasters.” and scolded
“The 638 cases of unfair information caught after December 1 of last year directly violated the special regulations on election deliberation stipulated by the Election Commission, and it is a very serious crime. It is the unanimous decision of the lawyers who have it.”
In particular, the National Guard deplored, “We have informed the outsiders of the monitoring results and have urged these broadcasters to stop biased broadcasting, but it is getting more and more prevalent as the election draws near, not to mention any signs of improvement.” We plan to file a complaint with the National Election Commission and the judicial authorities against a host, a reporter, a producer, a manager on the line, and the president of a broadcasting company.”
Officially launched on November 30 last year, the National Observation Group included ▲KBS Employee Solidarity ▲MBC Labor Union ▲Right Journalists Group ▲Citizens Concerned about Fair Broadcasting ▲Shinjeon Daehyeop ▲University Student Fair Broadcasting Observatory ▲Environmental Culture Citizens Solidarity ▲Environment and Welfare Group of Thinking Citizens ▲Environment and People ▲21 Green Environment Network ▲Arisu Environmental Culture Coalition ▲Good School Movement Coalition ▲Free Education Coalition ▲Administrative and Government Monitoring Network ▲Democratic Social Civic Organizations ▲Democratic Ideology Research Society ▲Free Enterprise Center ▲Welfare A total of 22 organizations are participating, including the Populism Expulsion National Movement Headquarters, ▲Sunjin Welfare Society Research Group, ▲Korea Civic Organization Network, ▲National NGO Solidarity, and ▲Korea Federation of Urban and Rural Coexistence.
“News-specialized channels defend ‘specific candidates’… Ignoring viewers”
On the other hand, the People’s Power Fair Broadcasting Surveillance Group (Director Hwang Bo Seung-hee, Kim Seung-su, Yoon Du-hyeon) said, “The fact that YTN anchor Byun Sang-wook once again made a political partial It was revealed on the 27th that, “We plan to file a complaint with the Election Commission on charges of violating the Public Official Election Act.”
The Fair Broadcasting Observatory said, “On the 20th episode of ‘Evening with the News (New Here’s)’, anchor Byun said, ‘The approval rating of Candidate Jae-myung Lee should have continued to rise, but the fact that it did not go up means that the cards that are drawn out are not working. “With only 50 days left, the approval rating should not be like this. (Lee Jae-myung) now has to pull it towards him,” he said, advising the ruling party presidential candidate whose approval rating has fallen.”
Regarding this, he asked, “Did the program and Byun anchor, which was criticized by the opposition party, become urgent when candidate Lee Jae-myung’s approval rating stagnated, or did anchor Ahn Gwi-ryeong, who he worked with, join the Democratic Party’s electoral team, expressing his earnest wish to take him too?” The sarcastic Fair Broadcasting Surveillance Corps said that anchor Byun said ‘too bad’ to a student who participated in the ‘fatherland situation’ protest three years ago, which caused a backlash from the youth, and the series of biased remarks made it a ‘bad talk anchor’, ‘the second Kim Eo-jun’, ‘ He mentioned the fact that he was even being criticized as a ‘instigator’.
Above all, the Fair Broadcasting Observatory said, “It is a news channel where fairness is life,” said the Fair Broadcasting Observatory, which expressed deep regret to YTN, which ignores viewers’ requests for a change of anchors and pointed out partiality on the viewers’ bulletin board of ‘New Haver’. It can only be seen as an act of ignoring viewers to put up a person who has lost even this minimal neutrality as the host and to defend a specific group and a specific candidate.”
The Fair Broadcasting Observatory said, “Anchor Byun’s remarks are clearly an election campaign through broadcasting, and they are judged to have violated the Public Official Election Act, such as ‘misuse of broadcasting, newspapers, etc.’ and ‘violation of election campaign period’.” I will,” he said.
The following is the provision of ‘Chapter 7 Election Campaign of the Public Official Election Act’ that the People’s Power Fair Broadcasting Surveillance Group decided to apply to Byun anchor.
Article 58 (Definitions, etc.) (1) The term “election campaign” in this Act refers to an act intended to be elected, to be elected, or to prevent it from becoming.
Article 98 (Restriction on Use of Broadcasting for Election Campaigns)
Article 252 (Crime of Unlawful Use of Broadcasting, Newspaper, etc.) ③ A person who violates Articles 82-7 (5), 94, 95 (1), 98, or 99 shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three years or 600 shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand won. <개정 2012. 2. 29., 2015. 12. 24.>
Article 254 (Crime of Violation of Election Campaign Period) (2) Before the election campaign period, except for the methods provided for in this Act, propaganda facilities, tools, various printed materials, broadcasting, newspapers, news communications, magazines, and other publications, opinion presentations, discussion meetings, and debates ㆍA person who conducts an election campaign by means of community associations, alumni associations, neighborhood associations, other assemblies, information and communications, establishment of election campaign organizations or private organizations, house-to-house visits, or other methods, shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not more than two years or by a fine not exceeding four million won. <개정 2010. 1. 25.>
