星期日, 4月 30, 2006

Wang Wenyi and the Epoch Times

Wang Wenyi (王文怡), the lady who heckled President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) of China recently, got her permission to the ceremony as a reporter for the Epoch Times (大紀元時報). However, this article, Medical Professionals: China Has a Very Large Reserve of Organs from Living People, I draw from the Epoch Times shows that Wang was interviewed by the Epoch Times correspondent as a medical professional.

My problem with this article is that, when I read her comments, I was misled to consider Wang as representing a neutral and scientific perspective. By the ethical standards in journalism, the Epoch Times should have provided the information that Wang is indeed a correspondent of their own. They did not reveal the potential source of bias in Wang's comments given her affiliation with the Epoch Times. Therefore, I consider publishing this article as inappropriate, unprofessional, and unethical.