The following editorial is from the etaiwannews.com:
The lightening decision of state-run Radio Taiwan International Chairman Cheng You, RTI President Shao Li-chung, RTI Deputy President Chang Cheng-lin and two board directors to resign Tuesday has cast a dark shadow over the commitment of the restored Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government to maintaining full news freedom in Taiwan.
The RTI chairman and four other colleagues on the 15-member board submitted their collective resignation in the wake of news reports that the KMT government, notably the Government Information Office, and KMT lawmakers had put intense pressure on Cheng and RTI management to change its news and programming management.
According to Taiwan media reports, GIO officials cited reports by the Guangzhou-based “Global Daily” (Huanqiu shibao), an internationally-directed subsidiary of the PRC’s official “People’s Daily,” that “the independence faction controlled the voice of Taiwan to attack Ma Ying-jeou” and called on RTI management to “make improvements.”
Cheng, a widely respected former journalist with the vernacular Commercial Times and ex-chairman of the Taiwan Television Network, has not been known for “pan-green” partisanship, stated that he had resigned with one year left in his contract because he had been “tagged with the colors of a particular political party and subjected to doubts of not endeavoring to propagate the new government’s policies.”
