Chinese TV Editors Fired over ‚June 4‘ Broadcast

Communist Party officials have fired five staff members from a Guangzhou television station. The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy says it’s because the staff didn’t immediately cut a segment from a Hong Kong news program that showed a candlelight vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen massacre.

While some Hong Kong news programs are re-aired in southern China, material that’s considered politically sensitive is usually cut and covered with commercials.

Although the segment only aired for ten seconds, the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department considered it to be a major political event. They dismissed the two editors and three assistants from the evening shift.

(NTDTV)