Re: SBS drops Vietnam news and apologises

At least SBS listened to the Viet overseas reaction. This shows the
democracy rights of people in free world. In contrary, VietCong always
claimed that they're people's servants, but they brainwashed people by
their unrealistic social socialist propaganda in daily news. The
people in the country have no choice but listen or view it. However,
they can't force Viet overseas to view those gargage TV program.

In the future, if this incident happened in the U.S cable TV network,
we should have protested like those Viet people in Australia to ban
those VietCong programs broadcasting to our network viewers.

tuna

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> Australia
>
> SBS drops Vietnam news and apologises
> By Mark Forbes
> December 6, 2003
>
>
> SBS has bowed to public pressure and dropped its broadcasts of a
> Vietnamese Government news service, Thoi Su.
>
> The SBS board yesterday issued an apology to the Vietnamese community
> and ordered the news broadcasts be immediately suspended, after a
> report from its advisory committee.
>
> "The board regrets that SBS inadvertently, but unacceptably
> nonetheless, failed to honour a written pledge from a former senior
> member of management to conduct appropriate consultations with
> representatives of the Vietnamese community before introducing the
> Thoi Su news program," the statement said.
>
> "The board is especially concerned that these broadcasts are reported
> to be causing a significant level of emotional distress among some
> Vietnamese."
>
> Broadcasts of Thoi Su would be suspended pending consultations to
> investigate if other Vietnamese language programs could better suit
> the needs of the community in Australia, it said.
>
> Potential news programs would be carefully assessed in light of local
> community needs, the board's statement said.
>
>
> President of the Vietnamese Community of Australia, Trung Doan,
> welcomed the decision. "This news was not only propaganda for the
> Communist Party of Vietnam - broadcast with taxpayers' dollars - it
> lied, denying the existence of political and religious prisoners in
> Vietnam," he said.
>
> Mr Doan said many in Australia's 170,000-plus Vietnamese community
> were refugees who had fled discrimination and mistreatment at the
> hands of the country's communist regime.
>
> The community has run a campaign against the news, culminating on
> Tuesday when more than 10,000 protesters blocked the street in front
> of the SBS Sydney headquarters.
>
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> Last Update: Saturday, December 6, 2003. 8:01am (AEDT)
> Govt welcomes end to Vietnamese news on SBS
> The Federal Government has welcomed a decision by multicultural
> broadcaster SBS to suspend broadcasts of a television news service
> from Vietnam.
>
> The move follows a series of protests by the Australian Vietnamese
> community aimed at having the news service removed.
>
> The Thoi Su bulletins, produced by Vietnam's state-owned broadcaster,
> were replayed un-edited by SBS.
>
> Australian Multicultural Affairs Minister Gary Hardgrave says the SBS
> board recognised it had failed to honour a commitment to conduct
> appropriate consultations before introducing the program.
>
> Mr Hardgrave says the episode illustrates the need for SBS to overhaul
> its complaints handling and consultation processes.