（編者按：無國界記者RSF感到憂心，香港人感到錐心，自由世界感到痛心！白雪公主的繼母每天問小鏡子，誰是世上最美的人。林鄭月娥如果問小鏡子，得到的答案應當就是：「妳是世上最醜陋的女人！」）
林鄭月娥於8月9日宣布，香港電臺（RTHK）與中國官媒未來將發展「合作夥伴關係」，無國界記者組織（RSF）擔心此舉將把公共媒體港臺變成中國在港的政宣傳聲筒。
香港行政長官林鄭月娥於8月9日宣布，公共廣播香港電臺（RTHK）將與中國官媒中央廣播電視總臺（CMG）建立長期「合作夥伴關係」，使香港民眾更深入「了解」中國共產黨，培養港人「更堅定的愛國情懷」。林鄭月娥僅提到未來可能播出相關「電視劇和紀錄片」，但雙方的合作關係很可能會擴及新聞相關內容。
RSF東亞辦事處執行長艾瑋昂（Cédric Alviani）表示：「香港政府已大量審查港臺內容，還硬塞一檔由林鄭月娥主持的談話節目，這段夥伴關係將帶給港府完美借口，迫使港臺傳播中國的政宣內容。」他譴責「香港政府加強干預港臺的編輯自由，是漠視《基本法》的明文保障，公然侵犯新聞自由」。
近年來，港臺飽受騷擾和審查之苦，新任廣播處長李百全於3月1日上任後越演越烈：多檔節目被停播，數百集舊影片從網路平臺上刪除，社交媒體帳號遭審查，林鄭月娥還在該臺親自主持節目以推動人氣低落的選舉改革。
中央廣播電視總臺（CMG）簡稱「中國之聲」，旗下有國家電視臺（央視-中國環球電視網）和國內外廣播電臺（中央人民廣播電臺和中國國際廣播電臺）。這些媒體必須依法強制轉播中國共產黨的政宣內容。RSF在2019年發表《中國追求的世界傳媒新秩序》報告，揭露北京控制境外資訊的戰略計劃，這項計劃對全球新聞自由構成威脅。
香港曾經是新聞自由的堡壘，在RSF世界新聞自由指數的排名從2002年的第 18名下跌到2021年的第80名。中華人民共和國在RSF世界新聞自由指數180國中排名第177，是世界上最大的記者監獄，目前境內至少有125名記者被拘留。
Hong Kong: RSF concerned by future “partnership” between public broadcaster RTHK and Chinese state media
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is concerned that the future “partnership” between Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and the Chinese state media, announced on 9th of August, would turn the public media group into a vessel to distribute the regime’s propaganda contents in Hong Kong.
On 9th of August, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced that public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) would build a long-term “partnership” with state media conglomerate, China Media Group (CMG) in order to boost “the understanding” of the Chinese Communist Party and to nurture “a stronger sense of patriotism” in Hong Kong. Lam only mentioned the possible broadcasting of “dramas and documentaries” but the cooperation is likely to extend to news-related contents.
“The Hong Kong government, which has already censored an overwhelming amount of contents and imposed a talk-show hosted by Chief Executive Lam, will find in this partnership a perfect pretext to force RTHK to distribute Chinese propaganda contents”, says the head of RSF East Asia bureau, Cédric Alviani, who denounces the “increased interference from the Hong Kong government against RTHK’s editorial freedom in a blatant violation of freedom of the press despite the principle being enshrined in the Basic Law.”
In recent years, the public broadcaster has been the target of harassment and censorship campaigns that have intensified with the arrival of the new Director of Broadcasting, Patrick Li, on 1st March. Since that day, numerous productions have been pulled off air, hundreds of episodes have been deleted from RTHK’s archives, social media accounts have been censored, and Carrie Lam herself has hosted her own show to promote unpopular electoral reform.
China Media Group (CMG), unofficially known as “Voice of China”, is a single umbrella organisation that combines state television (CCTV-CGTN) and the national and international radio broadcasters (China National Radio and China Radio International). These media are statutorily compelled to relay the Chinese communist party’s propaganda contents. In a report titled “China’s Pursuit of a New World Media Order” published in 2019, RSF revealed Beijing’s strategy, deployed by state media to control information beyond its borders, a project that poses a threat to press freedom throughout the world.
Hong Kong, once a bastion of press freedom, has fallen from 18th place in 2002 to 80th place in the 2021 RSF World Press Freedom Index. The People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest captor of journalists with at least 125 detained, has stagnated in the index at 177th out of 180.
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