The amendment to the Broadcasting Three Laws, which aims to change the public broadcasting's governance structure, has become a hot topic in the 22nd National Assembly. However, the ruling party, the People Power Party, opposes this law, arguing that it is regulated by the Broadcasting Act. Journalist Jo Jae-young delves into what happened in the past when there was no intention or ability to control the broadcast during the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations. Today, the People Power Party has launched a Fair Press Special Committee. If it were the ruling party, it would highlight the seriousness of the issue. The meeting began with the so-called Biden Flies report. As you know, this incident started with a report on MBC Newsdesk, involving fabricated news from unverified voices to subtitle manipulation. President Yoon Suk-yeol, the party involved, did not clarify the truth of his statement, forcing the entire nation to evaluate it forcefully, but the ruling party classified it as fake news.

The broadcasting law is claimed to be for a specific faction, but it is a bill to expand the recommendation rights of public broadcasting directors to professional organizations such as the PD Association and the Journalists' Association when amending the broadcasting law. Previously, the board of directors, recommended only by the ruling and opposition parties' presidents, is a bill to involve more people, but the People Power Party claims that these organizations are all biased. They argued that during the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations, there was no intention to control the media, nor did they cross the line. This should be viewed realistically. During the Lee Myung-bak administration, it was revealed that the National Intelligence Service conducted a large-scale fourth revolution against media outlets such as MBC, resulting in guilty verdicts for those involved, and it was also revealed that Lee Dong-gwan, the former public relations chief, was involved in the process. Also, during the Park Geun-hye administration, Kim Jang-kyum, who was the head of the MBC newsroom at the time, and later became the president,

Members of the People Power Party have been finally convicted by the Supreme Court for unfairly transferring journalists from the press union. Even under the Yun Seong-yeo administration, the controversy over press suppression has not subsided. The Press Arbitration Commission and the Ministry of Defense imposed sanctions for criticizing First Lady Kim Gun-hee, and they mass disciplined critical reports on the president, government, and ruling party. Today, Citizens' Coalition for Fair Press, a civic group that has joined the unique press of the People Power Party, has been actively filing complaints about such coverage. MBC News, I'm Jo Jae-young.

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