“Journalists at Hong Kong TV station resign en masse after 40 colleagues fired”. The Hong Kong Journalists Association commented on the layoffs, “Given the team’s coverage of the police and administration, it’s difficult not to see this as minimizing sensitive reporting in the name of cost-cutting”. According to Wong, the newsroom staff refused to comply with such requests. Wong said that the new management often made editorial requests, such as live broadcasts of China's foreign minister's regular press conference, or modifying headlines. On a radio interview aired on December 2, she rebuked the management's claim that the decision was made out of financial difficulties, remarking that in August, the management fired the then-executive director Fung Tak-hung and replaced him with four new managers. Among those laid off is Wong Lai-ping, former deputy news editor at the China desk. In shock, members of staff gathered outside the room of the news director demanding an explanation.
The layoffs were sudden and took immediate effect - those who were sacked were told to leave the office on the same day. The entire China desk, a total of 12 people, has since resigned in protest, along with the heads of the international and finance desks and the newsroom's chief assignment editor. The broadcaster cited financial reasons for the layoff, a claim the newsroom staff rebukes. Those laid off include the head of the China desk and the entire team of the award-winning News Lancet program. Over a dozen journalists resigned on December 1 from Hong Kong Cable Television Limited, a major subscription-based TV station in Hong Kong, in protest after the media company fired 40 editorial staff in what is perceived as a political crackdown.
(The story by Oiwan Lam originally appeared on Global Voices, on December 2, 2020) The question is based on the following text. Sudah siap hadapi UTBK tahun 2022 nanti? Yuk, tingkatkan persiapanmu dengan latihan soal UTBK 2022 Bahasa Inggris beserta pembahasannya di bawah ini.
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