{"id":159258,"date":"2013-07-08T20:37:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T03:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=159258"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:48:24","slug":"newspaper-attacks-spur-press-freedom-fears-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/newspaper-attacks-spur-press-freedom-fears-in-hong-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspaper Attacks Spur Hong Kong Press Freedom Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hkja.org.hk\/site\/portal\/Site.aspx?id=A1-1082&#038;lang=en-US\">a new report from the\u00a0Hong Kong Journalists Association<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2013\/07\/08\/newspaper-attacks-spur-press-freedom-fears-in-hong-kong\/\">press freedom in\u00a0Hong Kong has reached a new low\u00a0since Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took office last year<\/a><\/strong>. The report&#8217;s publication follows <a href=\"http:\/\/cpj.org\/2013\/07\/attacks-on-hong-kong-media-outlets-must-be-prosecu.php\">a series of attacks on the city&#8217;s Next Media group<\/a>.\u00a0From The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s China Real Time Report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In particular, the HKJA\u2019s report criticized Mr. Leung\u2019s office for what authors described as an attitude of \u201cincreasing secrecy,\u201d as well as its\u00a0proposal\u00a0to make it more difficult for journalists to use the Companies Ordinance to trace the identities of individual company directors. The proposal was shelved earlier this year following a storm of public criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Former journalist and current legislator Claudia Mo also slammed the government Monday. \u201cYou can ask all the questions you want and you wouldn\u2019t get anywhere,\u201d she said of the current administration, citing in particular the administration\u2019s reluctance to give details on how it intends to proceed with\u00a0hoped-for\u00a0plans for universal suffrage in 2017. \u201cThe government spokesmen will go, \u2018Blah blah blah,\u2019 and after four paragraphs it practically just amounts to a \u2018No comment,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely bad, on top of the existing problem of self-censorship,\u201d Ms. Mo said. Previous polls by HKJA have found that more than one-third of journalists say they either personally practice self-censorship or work with supervisors who do, owing in part to the fact that many papers in Hong Kong are owned by individuals connected to political bodies in mainland China. [<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2013\/07\/08\/newspaper-attacks-spur-press-freedom-fears-in-hong-kong\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hong Kong now ranks 58<sup>th<\/sup>, four positions lower compared to the 2011\/2012 ranking, in media watchdog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.rsf.org\/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html\">Reporters Without Borders&#8217;\u00a02013 global press freedom index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new report from the\u00a0Hong Kong Journalists Association, press freedom in\u00a0Hong Kong has reached a new low\u00a0since Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took office last year. 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