Hong Kong: media promotion fee?

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006 @ 10:04 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:
Hong Kong (China)
Topics:
Freedom of Speech, Media, Politics

An anonymous blogger doctor report blogged an open letter to the Civic Party concerning the political campaign for election of Chief executives (zh) and there is a list of “media promotion fee”: Apple Daily: HK$ 50,000 (discounted); Ming Pao: HK$ 80,000 (discounted); South China Morning Post: HK$ 189,379 (to be confirmed); Hong Kong Economic Times: (awaiting reply).

ESWN asks a simple question: what exactly is a “promotion” fee paid to a newspaper? … Does this mean that the newpapers are getting paid for editorial content favorable to Alan Leong (top figure in Civic Party)?

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