As the presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol announced that he would file a complaint against the voice of Seoul reporter, who recorded a phone call with Yun’s spouse Kim Kun-hee and reported it to the broadcasting company, for violating the Public Official Election Act and the Protection of Communications Secrets Act, the voice of Seoul said, “I don’t care. write,” he said. The reporter talked to Kim on the phone 20 times over the past six months, and the call duration is said to be about 7 hours.
People’s Power said on the 12th, “(Kim Geon-hee) made 10 to 15 private calls, not interviews, with Mr. A, who is in charge of filming the sound of Seoul, and Mr. A secretly handed over the recorded file to a broadcaster reporter.” It is a political operation that borrows the form of a report and bursts it.” Earlier, OhmyNews reported, “The ‘7-hour recording of Kim Gun-hee’s phone call’ seems to contain politically sensitive content, such as criticism of the Moon Jae-in government and the prosecution’s investigation of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk.”
In a phone call on the 12th, CEO Baek Eun-jong of Sori said, “I don’t care about accusations,” after saying, “Isn’t it the power of the people to make accusations because the content of the call has destructive power?” He continued, “From the beginning, reporters from Sori in Seoul revealed their identity and talked on the phone. Would it be a problem to say that I am a reporter and talk on the phone?” he asked. This means that it is not a private call because we talked on the phone as a reporter and a reporter.
CEO Baek Eun-jong asked the people, “I want to ask which subject is a violation of the Public Official Election Act,” and repeatedly said, “I revealed my reporter’s identity and spoke on the phone. As it will be revealed later, Kim Geon-hee also had something to gain from a phone call with a reporter from Sori in Seoul, so he said, “I was beaten up, so we talked for about 7 hours.”
Regarding the reason why Voice of Seoul did not directly report the recorded file, CEO Baek Eun-jong said, “The sound of Seoul is a bit stiff and that’s it. We didn’t do it because we feared that our report would lose credibility.” He added, “We may not report it. However, in the public interest, I thought that the whole nation should know, so I reported it to public broadcasting.”
The voice of Seoul, known as the so-called ‘retribution coverage’ concept, is an internet media that actively defended Yoon before the homeland crisis, such as criticizing the Newstapa reports that criticized Yoon Seok-yeol at the 2019 appointment hearing by Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol. There is a possibility that several calls were made until last year due to these ‘friendly relations in the past’.
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