The character of a Taiwan news agency

出自香港新聞網 - 樹仁新傳系學生實習習作

The Central News Agency, which is a Taiwan news agency. In the past, Central News Agency usually purposely report the bad news to smear the image of China, for example, they reported the illegal immigrates, but in a lager number, to show the poor of China.

The purpose of these reports was to bad faint the Hong Kong people to hate China. Mr. Stanley Cheung, Correspondent, Central News Agency, Hong Kong Bureau, said that Central News Agency had conflict with Xinhua at early stages.

Since the 1994 Qiandao Lake accident, Cheung went to China to cover this event, and he really knew the real situation of China, he thought that it was time to change the attitude of reporting China news. He changed his values of judge, too.

And also because the reason of market orientated, Central News Agency report entertaining news. Youth and most the public like the news those are entertaining and other news rather than political news.

Stanley Cheung said that, even the style of Central News Agency changed to be more suitable for the public, it has the big different with the general news in Taiwan, as the Taiwan News usually for entertaining the audience, but not depth enough, Central News Agency is still maintain their principle of reporting news.