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that's about 35 days after the bill was sent out - then the member will be posted. A $100 charge will be added to

editor

the account and the total amount of all credit immediately payable.

At the very least, being posted is an expensive inconvenience. Thus all mem-

bers are urged to settle their bills promptþ, prior to the end of the month in which they receive their account.

Jethro Lee-Mahoney Club manager

Another angle Gremlin at work The MaylJune issue

of

TIce Corye-

sþondent caffied an information note concerningthe effects of the decision at

the EGM to amend the terms of settlement of club accounts.

The information note ahnost made sense. However, I regret to report the activity of a gremlinwhich resulted in an incoffect date in subparagraph 3. The gist of the amendment was this: Anymonth's accountis closed and totalled at the end of that month. The

statement is mailed

I don't think it's Tim Street orAllen Tricþ Shot photo. It looks more like John Rittger. And the fellow with glasses in the upper left-hand corneris definitelyKeith Sillett, whowas at the time the general sales manager for Hales in the

to the member

within 10 days, with the account now due for settlement prior to the end of the month of receipt, ie. normally within 20 or so days.

If an account is not settled then, it willbe suspended. This means that credit facilities cannot be used, though use of the club may continue with pre-paid

youchers. In the (ropefirlly) unlikely event of an account remaining unpaid by the l5tlt of thLe following month

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Hugh's that rrnafl?

I am almost - but not quite, as this letter indicates - wordless with wonder at the humility, modesty and general camera-shyness of Hubert ("Hugh") Van Es, as amply evidenced (oxymoron intended) by the number of times his photograPh aPPears in the May,{une issue of Tb e Corre sþondtimes. ent -He 12 has outdone himself this time,

and I would like this letter to be puÞ lished in recognition (for it's easy to recognise him by now) of the feat.

Canon

a few issues have caused me quite a start; he wasn't anywhere to be seen in one or t!vo. But l waited out the month, and not withoLlt reward. He was back.

To make it easier for the people from the Guinness Book of Records,I would like to cite his appearances in the MaylJune issue:

1. Front cover, contemplating beer-can helicopter. 2. Roof of the Rex hotel. 3. In the Saigon Press Cafe.

4. On Saigon River cruise. 5. Conferring original of a pic on two people. 6.

Contemplating a VC escape l;,:atclJ'. T .

Standing beside a Ho Chi Minh tunnel sign. 8. Beside bust of "Uncle Ho". 9.

Shaking mud from self, after bathing in it. 10. Relaxing at Gustav's restalrrant in Hanoi. 1 1. At the now-defunct Hong Kong Hilton hotel. 1 2. I'm guessing here, but the man behind the only woman in the photo on page 9 resembles him enough to be him. So I'm

including it.

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A comþlimentaty euening 6tt witb Mr Van Es for the person to cor-rectly identify Íirst tlce opera

tbe autbor of tltis letter.

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Where's Kevin?

Thank you for t}:le May/lune Tbe

Capturing

I read every page and single mention of Kevin Sinclair. Is this a record?

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The thrill and excitenrent of spectator spolt transcends bordels and is an excellent u'a), for people to expfess the Lrnron olclifierent countries. It is

War coffespondents feruriofr set for Octobef 7 About 5O0 correspondents who covered American wars from Víodd War II to the present are expected to attend a reunion in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, OctoberT. Events

include a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honouring journalists who died covering armed conflicts, a lunch at Fort Myer, an exhibit of photos made by correspondents who died on both sides in the Vietnam'Wars, and a black tie dinner at the Sheraton National Hotel

in Arlington, followed by a programme of songs and stories from correspondents about their lighter

moments in'W'odd War II, the Korean

War, Vietnam War and America's smaller wars.

Bfoadcastef Walter Cronkite

is

scheduled to be master of ceremonies at the dinner. The photo exhibit will be arranged by Horst Faas of Associated press.

The reunion is beingheld this Year to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of tùlodd tù?ar II and ttre 20th anniversary of the end of ttre Vietnam War, said Carmella IaSpada, founder and CEO

of

No Greater Love, an organisation for remembering war Yictims.

IaSpada and Peter Amett of CNN

are chairing the rer¡nion. Members

iurportant to capture ¡he th¡ill in photographs for the wor'ld to share . Ard pLofessionaì photographers flom all over tlre wotlcl rely on Canon SLR

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cameras to give them theiL best shots becuase

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Kaiser,GeorgeMcÂrthur,Ike Pappas, Jack Reynolds, Al Spivak and Dick Swanson.Thecommittee'sNewYork representative is Richard Pyle, AP. FCC war correspondents who have not been notified of the reunion may

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Delaney, Joe Galloway, Al Kaff, Bob

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Self-censorship the greatest danger nour Tkre ne!\z club president, Elarts \Zriens, calls for Hong l(ong journalists to stand united against self-censorstrip. lFtre club is doing its bit by forrning a- ner\r corrrrrrittee to battle ttre tfrreat-

f t -rrst be refiex. Even after two I months, it still happens six days a week. When I receive my copy of the Soutlt Cbinø Morning Post, I skip the front page and go instantþ to the bottom of page tw-o, even though by now I have somehow accepted that all I will find is a weather map. I still miss the

best the Post had to offer.

Of course, the sudden death of The

rtr'odd of Lily'Wong is not the first case

of selfcensorship in the media. For quite some time our two English-language TV stations, TVB andÄTV, have had the stfange habit of buying intefest-

ing documentaries about China, but never being able to find an appropriate

slot in which to broadcast them.

To give our members the opportunity to see these documentaries and judge forthemselves, the FCC lastyear started its highly successfrrl series of "Documentaries you will not see on ÄTV andTVB". So farwe have showed the BBC's Cbairman Mao: The Last

Emperor, a documentary by the nowimprisoned American-Chinese human rights activist H:arry'V7u, on the Chinese Gulags and, recentþ,Ihe Dying Rooms, on China's onechild policy and its state orphanages. Because of demand, this was screened twice.

Even more serious is the imprisonment of Hong Kong joumalist Xi Yang, who will have to spend 12 years in a Chinese jaiJ,for "stealing state secrets" - this despite the fact that so far nobody has been able to trace aîy potential state secrets in the series ofarticles for which he was arrested.

The most blatant, but honest, case

of selfcensorship came from Rupert Murdoch, the owner of STAR-TV, who unceremoniously dumped the BCC Wodd Service news channel from its

northem beam because this w.ould increase his chances ofg€tting afoothold in the China market.

These are all examples of what Martin Lee calls "bending before the north v/ind has begun to blow". The

To defend press freedom in Hong Kong, the Board of Govemors has decided to set up a new sul>committee, which is totally devoted to freedom of the press in Hong Kong and elsewhere.

Recently the FCC submitted several

Joint Declaration guarantees freedoms of speech and of the press. But what really counts is to what extent correspondents, journalists, newspaper prcprietors and editors are willing to stand up to defend these rights. Our rights and freedoms will not be lost all at once. As shown above, theywill be lost one by one. Or as the German, Martin Niemoeller, described the gradual loss of freedom in Nazi Germany tn 1933: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists and I didn't sPeak uP because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't aJew. Then they came for the ffade unions, and I didn't speakup because I wasn' t atr.ade unionist. Thentheycameforthe Catho lics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,

letters to the government in which it expressed its disappointment that, despite our repeated pleas, distressingly little has been done by the government to protect freedom of the press and freedom of expression. This subcommittee will, when appropriate, work closelywith the Hong KongJoumalists Association and other media organizations on press freedom.

There is more good news. 'W'e are also increasing our own and your flow of information. The FCCis ontheverge

and by that time no one was left to speak up."

Hong Kong's free Press, oPen debate and free flow of information are some of the greatest treasures China will be bequeathed in 1997. Let us hope there is still something to inherit, says Martin ke. He is so right.

The FCC has sPokenuP everYtime

Intemet from the upgraded FCC/BM -Workcentre and International Press from their own computers. All four IBM and the Apple computers in the workroom have built-in modems and Intemet facilities. You could also use them to see ouf new and rapidly ex-

it was appropriate to defend press freedom and freedom of sPeech. \Øe didn't

show The fuing Rooms because we approve of everything in it' That is not the point. The FCC is of the oPinion that a serious documentary on China's controversial onechild policy is important enough to give our members the opportunity to watch it.

of entering cyberspace. This

will conclude

monthwe

with one of the providers of Intemet in Hong Kong.

Our aim is to provide all members with a

a deal

free Internet account, to create a so-

called Home FCC-Page and to have our own dedicated FCC-software.

All memberswill also be able to use

panding FCC-CD-Rom hbrary.

Anybodywho wants to participate in the activities of the Press Freedom Committee or one of the other committees is most welcome. Just call the relevant convenor. You will find her/ his name in the masthead of this magazine. Other comments or suggestions canbe sent to: hansv.@hk.linkage . You may also call.

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Hong I(ong's f)ress freedorns afe under frorrr nev\zsf)aç et siege frorrr all sides 1>ro1>rietors, T*W station e><ecì-lti\res, tirnid editors an<J frigtrtened journalists aS vzell, of cogfse, as frorrr Eteijing. lftrat's vzkr¡z ttre FCC kras taken ttre r.rrì.pfecedented stef) of setting up aPress Freedorrr Corrrrnittee. Corr¡zen-or Francis Àzloriarty ta'kes a look at ttre d;an::gers arotlnd us arrd vr¡trat the cornrnittee vzill be doing.

WffiilT"#ff:.¿ï"îiffå

himself sitting in a jail cell, doing some first-hand research on ciyil disobedience, hewasvisitedbyhis goodfriend, RalphWaldo Emerson, who inquired: "Henry, whatever are you doing in there?" To which Thoreau replied: "Ralph, the question is not 'what am I doing in here'. The question is, what are you doing out there?" rü(¡hich is a way of getting around to another question: Whyhas the FCC set up a press freedom committee?

When the real question should be: Why hasn't the FCC set one up before?

Perhaps the answer has something to dowith complacency. We have taken our liberty a bit for grante d, whingeing about the odd bureaucrat or the colonial mentality, but generally being left alone to get on with our work. How-

ever, the situation has always been different for reporters who correr really local news, particularly in the days

when certain papers had the proverbial ' special relationship' with the government, leaving disfavoured publications scratching for information where they could find it. Reporters covering

Hong Kong, not just working from here, have always known just how closed this government reallywas, alit benefited grc tly by comparison to what was operating across

though

the tlorder.

That is why the Hong KongJourCtub presld.ent Hans Vriens

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August 1995

aûtld tbe local med'iø: a.tlmefor a.ction.

nalistsAssociation has long had a press freedom committee, andwhyit has felt the need to produce an annual report August 1995 TED GORRESPoilIIDilT

on the state ofthe free press. Thisyear's

excellent yersion is appropdately titled Broken Promises: Freedorn of Expression in Hong Kong , anditis a catalogue of all the reasons journalists here have to worry. Which gets us neatly around to why club president Hans Vriens as-

be addressed. It is hard to shut up a couple of hundred reporters. But you can make them silent as stones bY g ggtng a single publisher, as in the case ofthe Internationøl Herald Tribune. Singapore, however, does not

gested that we cÍeatr- a press freedom

stop with single publishers (or even single former FCC presidents). It has now extended its logic to entire na-

committee of our own.

Over the past two years, certainly

tions, calling upon the Philippine government to apologise in the case of

since China's arrest and jailingof

Flor Contemplacion, the FiJipina do-

sented so quickly when

it

was

sug-

Míng

Pao reporter Xi Yang. the FCC has b..om. inl creasingly active in the fight for the protection of press freedom, but it

has been on an issueby-issue, event-byevent basis. But the times no

longer allow for such

ad hockery. There is legislation we want passed, bills we want

Local TV stations purchase broadcastrights to documentaries, thenrefi.rse

to air them, effectively blocking them from public view (unless the FCC steps in to fill the void, as president Vriens outlines in this issue).

Rupert Murdoch drops the BBC Wodd Service from STAR-TV to avoid upsetting China.

Aþple Datly reporters are denied access to eve nts in Be ijing , inapparent

retaliation for publisher Jimmy Iai's printed insults to Prernier Li Peng. And then

there are the thugs throwtngAþþ/e copies intotheMacauharbour,

perhaps part of the China retaliation, or as seems more likely

an act of revenge

for

stories the paper pub-

Committee. The government has received a High Court verdict upholding Section 30 (reversing a lower court fmding that held the section to be in

violation of Article 16 of the Bill of Rights). Ming Pao is considering an appeal to the Privy Council. Anyone who wonders why there is such a fuss over the Court of Final Appeal is invited to answer this: From whom are theMtng Pao Three more likely to get a lallr }lrear:ng - the Law Lords in London or a group of formerAppellate Court judges, vetted by the Beijingappointed transition team and the chief executive-designate of the future Special Administratiye Region, who are likelyto count among them at

ies? Let's hop

W'omisomeasthehoodlums are, it is the nearsilence by members of

written, rep-

the Preliminary'Work-

resentations made, in-

ing Committee that un-

terviews given. The

settles the most. Save for Tsang Yok-sing and his Democratic Alliance

13ra;ît citizeîs a legal right to know what the administration has in its files. Again, the FCC and the HKJA have been fighting very hard for an Access to Information law and much ef-

creases. Moreover, the

for the Bettement of

fast-approaching transi-

HongKong, none of the PWC members openly objected to China's ex-

tionto Chineserule has many implications for journalists and for the

club itself. For example, will joumalists here need some kind of offi-

cial accreditation,

as

they do in China? What

will "foreign" mean after 1997? exactþ

Howwouldweclassif a

correspondent from a

Chinese newspaper headquartered in Bei- Alteffiatìue þress: a newsstand ln Sbangbat. jing? OrinGuangzhou?

Will settingup abureau mestic hanged by the Singapore govin Hong Kong be as easy as it is now? errìment. We have never dealt with Or more like setting one up in China?

Our concerns also cover the re- anything quite like the Singapore phenomenon and it's going to require gion. Recent events have, sad to say, some carefi:l thought. name than the made Singapore more But one need not Pick on Singaof a proud republic. It is now a metaphor for restrictions on the press, in- pore. Pick a,tlnreat to press freedom andthere is an example close athand: cluding punitive libe I actions launched TVB News executive Leung Kaby senior government ministers who wing excises unflattering references ought to know how to use their power to communists contairied in a documore productively. How to deal with mentary about Cambodia. this threatis amajorissue thatneedsto

clusion of the Aþþle feporters from covering their meetings.

Mind you, this is the samegroupthatisready to Yote itself in as the

Preparatory Committee, then probably as the provisional legislature, where among the firstof theireadypromised acts will the passage of laws against trea-

sonandsubversionthat

will take effe ctwhen China takes oyer.

The Hong Kong govemment insists upon punishing three Ming Pao journalists under Section 30 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance,

which bars disclosure without prior perrnission of information about ICAC investigations. This is a draconian provision that the FCC has consistently opposed, and about which we have voiced our distaste in letters to both

the govemor and the ICAC Review

The bad news is that the government knows perfectþ well what the lâws are that deeply concern journal-

The govemment continues its half-

hearted effort to remove potentially dangerous legislation that dates from as far back as the last century, much of it virtually never invoked. Some small steps are being taken. The govemment has agreed to repeal regulations contained in the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, alaw t}aat gives the gorrernor unfettered power to do anything deemed necessary in the event of an emergency, a condition for which no

eMing Paotakes

the case to London.

amended,lawswewant scrapped. Many letters

as the urgency in-

advisorybodies have on their agendas.

We might also ask for the miriutes of their meetings.

ing on Beijing advisory bodThe govemment refrrses to

workload is expanding

is now a far better piece of law. That is the good news.

least two individuals now serv-

lished about triads.

nee d to be

to know what all those govemment

process.'We might start by demanding

fort by joumalists went into preparingone. The restilÍ Govemment Guidelines to Access that haye no teeth. Access is now a

matter of suggested nfes left operi to the interprètation of

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journalists irr Hong

I(ong need sorne accreditation,

as trrLe)r

do in Ctrina?'tül.trat qzill "fofeigtr"

firea;î

after A997?

bureaucrats suchas Works SecretaryJarnes Blake, who recently

told legislators that water pollution measurements would be kept secret because the public

might "misinteipret' ttrem, which of coufse means that the citizeffy might rcaßze how bad the poisoning really is and, in its parric, demand that the pollut-

erspay principle be extended to big business and to goYernment. They might evenwant to see all the information contained in environmental impact statements on projects like the airport and container terminals. Blake's action is a perfect example of what bureaucratic discretion means in practice, and

why we have fought for a legislated right to know. But as the guidelines exist, theymust either be made to work, or shown up

ineffectual. Iæss than a handfirl of joumalists have so far sought to make use of the guidelines. I would call upon every member of the FCC to find a reason to seek information from a govemment department and to test the as

definition is provided. But while scrap pingthe subsidiaryregulations, the govemment has retained the ordinance itself, saying "fresh regulations" cotrld be provided if necessary. That is like tossing outthe oldbullets as beingpast the sell-by date , while le aving the pistol hangng on the wall, ready for fresh aÍìmo when the time comes. Also, as this is being written, the legislature is about to pass the Interpretation and General Clauses (Amendment) Bill, which places restrictions upon the ability of law enforcement agencies to engage in the search and seizure of joumalistic materials. The FCC made a subrnission to the bills committee, as did the HKJA, and the government responded favourably on a number of points. Thanks to the effort of the committee headed by Andrew rùØong, the

bill

it steadfastly refuses to consult the profession when it finally ists, yet

gets around to wateririg these provisions down. So we are forced to be vigilant and track legislation, a time-

consuming and sometimes highly technical process.

I have not touched on other areas of deep concern, such as the future role of the Communist Party in Hong Kong; the monitoring of joumalists by China; the division of the news media into categories based on the

perception of their political leanings and their vulnerability to persuasion, intimidation andattack; the blacklisting of publications, news organisations and specific individuals; the infiltration of the media by agents who come in under the cover of being mainland journalists, a much-desired group

due to their connections in China and knowledge of affairs there; the buy-out, then closing down of publications viewed as unfriendly to Beijing (eg, the appointment of as a Hong Kong affairs adviser after the shutting down of Contemþorary; or the shifting news sensibilities of publications who view future growth as being on the mainland and who rre ergeÍ, to borrow the word s of the Hongk ong Standard's editot, Terry Cheng, to engage "in the rectifi.cation of past excesses. " And I haven't eYen meritioned Lily \üong.

It is to deal with such matters that

Yip Kwok-wah

we need

a Press Freedom Committee,

and I wish to thank the Board for backingtheproposalto startone. I amequally pleased as conyenof to see that so many members have expressed interest in tak-

lngpart. The formation of the commit-

tee is an importânt statement of the FCC's concem about protecting our lit>

erties. Ourfirst meetingwill take place in late summer, a.fter a number of members retum from holiday and extended assigfiments, andllookforwardto keep

ing the club up to date on orrr efforts

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controversial ChiÍra documentary \üçzith :f\rEl and AT*W stro'vrzing no sign of screening

ttre rrlrclr-discussed Britistr docurrerltary TVte l)1uín'g -R<><>rns, ttre FCC stepped in lrzittr not one, t>ut txzo, rrie-vrzings.

I:.x'#; DYing of club

Tbe

kinds tarv produced fwo very different

å".ni"g' The fìrst night involved

of

a

sober debate about the documentary journalism in general; the iÀãr ""¿ more ofl a sPeci-fic foãused ,..oo¿ FCC members willwhich to piá¡.., rngly gave money'

" 'ñe

DYtng Rooms shows some of

the abuses in China's state-run from

.,-t **at - abuses that range who aãin tã".. towards toddlers roá¿ ,n. entire daY tied inofchairs potti.t to *¡ I neglect baby die' "ião. ,o the Point where they "nitlt one ofthe moreharrowingimages

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but denied her existence' this, ----'iebate

in the FCC after the first joumalistic showing focused on the subtextwas ouestioñs raised, although a consequences the of dre broader issue

äicrti""'t onechild policy'

The results

programme of ttre populationcontrol

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But the debatewas limited. Certatn organisations who work in these fields in China declined to come to the FCC a sign that incuring the displeasure of Beijing is a matter of concem for other professionals than just those whowork

Fergal Keane, the new BBC correspondentinBeijing, who knows athing or two about documentaries, having won several major awards for his about Rwanda, made the point that the Chi-

inthemedia. hrstead, thepanelincluded Jonathan Mirsky, who appeared in the

Not only do they cteatea "snowstofm" for journalists working there, but they have repe atedly refused permission for the BBC each time it has tried to make a film about the one-child policy.

On the second occasion the documentarywas shown, there was no for-

documentary columnist Nury Vittachi and field specialist Sheila Purves. Sadly, noneofthe documentaryteamwasthere; instead, theywere represented by pho tographer David Chappell.

The consensus view was that the filmwas flawed, but that the FCC was right to show it because it would not have got an uring on either of Hong Kong's TV stations (see comments on this by club president Hans Vriens, on page 4). The major criticisms were its style and what are best described as its excesses. After all, it was called The fuíng Roortts, but the evidence on cameÍa was of one only. Some members felt the documentary had taken fartoo emotional an approach, leaving analysis and even objectivity behind.

There were also objections to its traY-

elogue style.

Rex Ellis, who declared himself an old joumalistic foge¡ wanted facts, and

got some from David Chappell, who pointed out that the sryle was foisted on the independent makers by Ctønnel4.

He added that one reason tlrat locations and people were obscured was to pro tect their identities - an argument that seemed to be accepted.

nese authorities do

notheþ themselves.

mal discussion. Instead, Nina van Toulon and club member Katy le Blanc

answered questions about their own project - the Ing Mei Orphanage Fund.

The frrnd helps look after 110 children at the Ing Mei Orphanage rn Thejiang province, ofwhom over 70 per cent are gids and

9O

per cent are handicapped.

This involves collecting some RM810,000 to pay fot one little girl to have an urgently needed heart operation. FCC members did themselves

proud by stumping up a significant part of the cash.

On top of this, the two women who live in Hong Kong but do business in that part of China - ate taking a long-termview and are trying to change culture and attitudes towards the orphanage by encouraging local people to become more involved.

A total of 712 members attended the first scree r:lng of Th e Dy íng Ro oms and 52 the second.

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China: there must be no "gratuitous"

accusations. Everything must be accompanied by facts.

But comic strips are not like that.

They hit and run. For that reason, Tbe

World of Lily Wong probably stung the people in Fortress Xinhua more than a thousand Morning Post leaders. Feign, who had worked for the Posl longer than virtually everybody on the editorial staff ,was dismissed by

killed Lily Wong?

Previous Posú editor Phillip Crawley objected to this first panel, but, after discussion with Feign, decided to run the strip anyway.

oça

fax on the night of the "murderous dog" line.

Armstrong and new editorJonathan

Fenby say they received only a few letters after the disappearance of Lily, and none from Chinese readers. This is how Fenby worded it in a letter pub-

Was this what did for Lily? Iarry Feign was sacked on the day this appearcd.

lished in Tl¡e Guardiaz newspaper in London: "'SØe have receivedfewer than

YEAí.

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a dozen letters, half of them merely inquiringwhere the strip nas been a sufiuïer ofupheavals at ttre Soutlt Cbinø Morning Post.

strips it lrad already paid for but not used? And why didn't it consider the

The first was the sudden killing-off of Tbe World, of Lily Wong catoon strip,

cartoonist's offer to continue work-

which had been running in the Post for eight years.

Editor-in-chief David Armstrong

'ùØhatever the reason, Lily had certainlybeen scathing about some of the inequities of life in China. In the days before,{rmstrong dropped the stfip, it had been taking a look at the organ transplant business, with a reference,

ft I

says

Lily, andher creator, Larry Feign,

were done away with to cut costs.

Nonsense, says Feign. If thatwere the case, why didn't t}l.e Post run the

ing for a reduced fee?

albeit introduced humorously, to Li

Pengbeing a "fascist, murderous dog".

These are the kind of throwaway and enrage the lines that baffle

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Chinese authorities. They don't like criticism of any kind, but, for obvious reasons, they have had to learn to live with it, as long as it is supported by reasoning. In this context, the editors of tl:e Soutlt Cbina Morning Post arc thought to have been given essentially one de when it comes to covering

has gone.

We

have had not a single letter from our Hong Kong Chinese readers, who make up more thLanhalf the circulation and write on every subject under the sun."

way,tlrat Tbe Guardian, on the other side of the wodd, pubQ.{ote, bythe

lished Fenby's letter about Iily Wong.

Tl:re Post, under the editorship of the same Fenby, has not published one of those it has received.)

So what happened to the letter Martin Lee says he wrote for publica-

tion? That never appeared. Armstrong's reply to that question can be found on page 14.

are feattred the organ transplant series, the strips the Posthad paid for but not used, a number of others

An extended version of Lee's letter is to be found in Larry Feign's new book, B ønne d in IIong Kozg in which

banned over the years byvarious Posf editors and many more.

-Psfs1'Cordingley

The Posü had paid for these, but still didn't use them. A strange way to to save money.

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'There was no cefrsorship' A4<>rnirtg P<>st editor-in-chief Da"rzid Arrnstrong sa;zs the decision to sack calrtoonist Larry Feign szas purely financial- Etut he acknoxrledges tLLat tre censored letters accusing hirn of politica-l celrsorskrip, including one frorn Derrrocrat I{artin LeeHere is the f'Lrll te><t of Affnstfollg's reply to qLrestions put to trirn, f>y fa><, f>y 7l2z e (]<>rresp o rt(Zev, t editor Peter Cordingle>--

Cordingley: If the sackf)..."

I ing of Larry Feign was a

budget-cutting exercise, a) why did you notpublishthe stripsyou had already paid for? and b) why did you not entertain his offer to work for a reduced fee?'

full cost of the LilyS7ong strip was part ofan overall savings target. Ifthe saving to be made is $X and the person

David Amstrong: a)'When Larry

jected saving.

Feign's contract was terminated, I decidednotto publish strips alreadypaid for because I believe that once difficult decisions are taken it is best to

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the separation. This is my general approach. In this pafüculat case, it was obvious that ending Mr Feign's contract would be a contentious decision because "Lily Wong" was intensely popular among a section of the readership (although not, I believe, widely popular). Mr Feign cleady had an opportunity to make a marryr of himself; if I had allowed him to continue drawing Lily NØong for the next month (as he suggested), I would have been giving him a chance to make amartyr of himself day after day.

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b) I did not entertain his offer to work for a reduced salary because the

affected ofTers to work for, say, $3¡4X,

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would be happy to publish a letter from him on this subject. I suggested he might reconsider his original letter and invited him to replyto me. He did not write back.

P.C. \Vhy did you not publish even one of the letters you received?

P.C. Can you con-fi.rm that you have not received aletterfor publi-

cation onthe Feigntopic from any Clrinese readers, including a)D'{:ar

tin Ire a¡d/or b) Christine Loh?

D.A. I did not receive any letters of complaint, or inquiry, from any Chinese people among the general readership ofthe paper. I did not receive a letter from Christine Loh. I did receive a letter from Martin Lee. It was dated

May 22. The second sentence of his letter began with the words "I do not know the genesis of this decision . . ."

The letter continued with more than a page of speculation and criticism.

I wrote to

Martin the next day,

suggesting that his admission that he did not know the reason for the deci-

sion rendered the rest of his letter irrelevant. I explained tl:at tlae Post

D.A.

Ireceivedfewerthan 20 letters concerning the ending of Lily Wong.

Some were unpublishable because they were crude and abusive; some were simple letters of inquiry. The re st were attacks on the allegedly political nature of the decision.

I should point out here that until recently the Posf had a policy, going back many years, of not publishing letters criticising its performance or decisions. I changed that policy and letters critical of the Posl are now published.

I am willing to be criticised for the things I have done. But I did not see why I should wear the hak-shirt of public criticism in my own newspaper for something I had not done - that is, made a political decision to end Lily 'W'ong; to have allegedlybowed to pres-

had been conducting an economy drive

sure when there was no pressure. This

and that Lily \Vong had been a victim

is not a matter of opinion, of letting people put their viewpoint; this was a

of cost-cutting. I told Martin that I

August 1995 Tf,E CORRXSPoilDIIIT

question of fact. I was accused in these letters of making a political decision; I had not. Instead of publishing letters onthe subject, Iwrote to complainants explaining the position.

P.C.

Can you please supply the

fïgures that support the contention that LilyVong cost the equivalent of two journalists' salaries.

D.A. I believe I have actually said it

element- editorial- made to carrythe entire load of the discore

rníssals?

D.A.

Tbe Soutb

CltinaMorníngPost

decided to cut editorial salaries by 10

per cent in order to control rapidly rising costs. These were: the price of newsprint; the cost of editorial sala-

was the equivalent of two young jour-

ries @oosted by expansion of the paper and the higher salaries generated by the competition flowing from the launch of the Eastern Exþress); and

nalists' salaries. The matter of Mr

the cost of equipping two new of-

Feign's monthly contributor's payment confidential, unless Mr Feign chooses

fices/plants, atTaiPo andDorsetHouse

is

to disclose it. I can say it amounted to almost half of the total monthly cartoon bill of tlae Soutlt Cbina Morning Post and tlee Sund,ay Morning Post. \Øith a 10 per cent increase scheduled in October, it would have been more

than half. At a time of financial cutbacks, the question of whether it is worth paying almost half the carroon budget on one strip is an obvious one.

I decidecl it was not.

More generally, I would suggest that you look at the logic of events at the Posf over the last few months. In March, we began an economy drive, implementing a virtual fteeze on the hiring of new staff, cutting back on

in Quarry Bay. Editorial costs were singled out because theywere the only one of the three over which the company harl control and, of the various departmental staff costs, the only one which had blown out. So there were no non€dito rial staffincluded in the lay-offs.

P.C. How

do you respond to ac-

that the editorial layoffs were caused by the realisation that it would have been too costly to let the Sunday papet move to Tai Po, and that room had to be found for everyone in cusati.ons

Dorset House?

D.A.

I have

never heard of the sugges-

stringers and retainers and putting tight controls on travel. In May, we ended Larry Feign's contract and merged tlae Sundøy and Daily edito-

tion that the company "realised" it would be too costþ to move the Sunday PosttoTai Po. This is not so much of an accusation as aninvention. Itwas

rial operations, resulting in the laying off o125 editorial staff and a cut in the editorial salaries bill of more than 10 per cent. InJune, we tightened control over our leave bill.

In the same period there has been no change in editorial policy, our columnists who are critical of China contirue to write exactly as they have done in the past, and Paul Best, our political

not, at any time

cartoonist, still has a free hand. No one has been censored. Yet, somehow in the middle of this, the Lily Wong decision is meant to be a political one. The logic of events at the Post supports the facts of the Lily Wong decision - itwas part of an economic cutback.

P.C. On the rnore general question of sackings, can you please say how many non-editorialper-

sonnel were laid off in the costcutting exercise that led to the merging of the Sunday paper with the daily? If none, why was the lHE

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factor in the compa-

ny's deliberations on cuttingbackcosts.

P.C. Disrnissing 10 per cerìt of editorial is a very deep cut. There is a risk that good people will be lost. IIas this happened?

D.A. In any large scale cutback it is inevitable that some good people will be lost, along with the "passengers". of course, manymore goodpeople the 90 per cent still working at the

P.C. Intheeyesofsome,youwill be remembered as an undistinguished editor who lefï tlae M ornúng Post weaker than he found it.

Howwouldyoulike to be remembered af ter you return to Au str alia?

D.A. This is a real "when-did-youstop-beating-your-wìfe" question. I am pleased to see, however, that you say some might view me as an undistin-

guished editor, for this means that most do not.

It has been my experience here that in the eyes of "some" no editor of the Post has ever produced a decent newspaper. "Some" of the "some", of course, had a chance to put hundreds

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In a preamble, Armstrong

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spoke about the question of selfcensorship: "Selfcensorship is often discussed here as though it is a peculiady Hong Kong problem, which, of course, it is not. It is a common observation iust about everywhere that reporters "talk" their stories much harder than they write them. And it is coflrmon all over the wodd for reporters to go easy for fear of offending a friend, or a foe.

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Morning Post editor Jonathan

Fenby. Few people have had their job description changed as radically and rapidly as his.'When he was hired in London eadier this year, he was le d to

believe he was coming out to Hong Kong to run a strong daily newspaper with a long and (mainly) honourable reputation. løith the challenge from the Eøstern Exþress beaten off, the Post was not only set for a Period of growth, but had a crucial role to PlaY in maintaining Hong Kong's confïdence as the change of sovereignty approached. InsteaÇ, Fenbyfinds himself editor of a newspaper in its worst editorial crisis in its 9l-yeat history.

It started with the sacking, in suspicious circumstârnces, of cartoonist I¿rry Feign after a particularly acidic attack on China. Despite denials from Fenby and others, itis now suspectedthe paperhas been tumed byproBeijing political

pres

sure. Days later, some of Fenby's best joumalistswere sackedfromundemeath him by the editor-inchief; and many of those who escaped the dismissals are said to be now resentfi¡l and dispirited.

Not only ttrat, ttre feisty Sunday paper was swept away (takingwith itmywife, its editor, it should be said), and in its place is asad, charactedess cat-trayliner.

Little wonder, then, that FenbY, when asked recently how things were going, is said to have merely shook his head in disbelief.

W-ho's to blame? Itwould be easy

but, in fact, incorrect - to blame Armit- all on editor-in-chief David strong. True, he has serious faults as a leader, but tlae Mornlng Post is not in the mess it's in because of him. The

problem lies with the fact that it is a badly run company. Seen from the outside, the Posf looks like a sleek, money-making machine. But on the inside things are rrery different. Its management team, which groups the principal executives, is split, just about along race lines, with several members openly at wat with each other. Much executilre energy at the Morning Posl is wasted on whispering campaigns, blame-passing and blocking. Atthe top levels of thePos/,

Capital expenditure budgets were flrnning wild, and moving the Sunday pa-

one person's problem is another pef-

about costs, and his secretary then handed out envelopes telling the recipient whether helshe was being dis missed or retained. It was shoddy beyond belief. @y the way, did anyone notice that the sackings were at the very end of May? If they had been left a

son's celebfation.

Given this, it should have come

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no suq)fise to anybody that ttre move to

theTaiPoplantwas simplytoo muchfor the company. From day one, the operationwas botched. Plan A, ifyou remember, was for all editorial to move out to Tai Po. But then, in the face of poaching by the Eastern Exþress, it was thought more caring to keep them in town. So we had Plan B: The joumalists wottld go into the Bank of America Tower. But Bank of America was then judged too valuable a piece of real estate to put hacks in. Plan C: They wottld all go to Dorset House, alongside the building the Posf was vacating. That plan held good for months, but then there was anotherproblem. Itwas discoveredthere wasn't enoughroom in the building for both the daily and Sunday papers. Back to Plan A (revised): The Sunday would go to Tai Po, and the dailywottld stay in town. As solutions go, it was the worst possible. It meant costþ duplication of technology and facilities, and it created two classes of editorial staff Meanwhile , the cost of the Tai Po plant was now almost out of control.

pef out there, with the duplications involved, would only make things worse. Quite cleady, the Sunday staff would have to be squeezed into Dotset House. But how? Plan D (final solution): The Sunday paper would be merged with the daily.

So side

the infantrywere marched outagalnst a wall and shot. Or,

, put

more exactþ, DavidArmstrongmade a mumbled, incomprehensible speech

little longer, the victims would have qualifled for the annual pay rise inJuly

- which would have increased all the redundancy pay-outs.)

The people who made all thewrong calls over the Tai Po move are still in their executive offrces. Does it bother them that perfectly irìnocent people lost their jobs because of their bungling?

Knowing who they are, I don't suppose so. They are skilled survivors and they

will put the Tai Po nightmare behind them soon enough.

On page 14,David Armstrong dismisses this scenario. But he would, wouldn't he? He was part of the decision-making team on Tai Po. And, anyway, these days he is being asked to do and say a lot of things he is not comfortable with. As forhis future, I stand bymy prediction that he will be gone before verylong. His job is done here.

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Jnst like Korea itself, the group is undergoing a period of change, both in itself and as the relationship betlveen the two Koreas changes. Not

about the role North Koreaplayed in all this. Interestingly, this, like his failure to become president, has been one of the few obvious failures of Chung Juyung. He "looked as if he was getting somewhere but wasn't," said Kirk of his subject's business involvements in the North, although Hyr-rndai is still very much involyed in rnoves to bring the two states closer.

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IY/i-t.n i rsr came ro riong nong, W ,n. OceanTerminal had been rr

open about a year, Harbour City didn't exist and there was a great square space at the top of the Peak. It was 1969.In the intervening years, Hong Kong has witnessed much and spread gteat deal, as ,indeed, have L " The passage of time is not necessarily something that one notices on a regular basis. In fact, I suspect that too

much attention to Old Father Time might actually be atad maudlin. And, a recent edition of this magnificent organ, I was extol-

yes, I do realise that in

ling the yirtue of celebrating birthdays. But that's only once a year.

From first sight, Hong Kong has always been a fascinating city, the people more so than the place. Nowa-

days,l think it's more the place than the people. Any comparison of the Hong Kong of the late '60s with the (un)fragrant harbour of the '90s is impractical, pointless, and probably riddled with inaccuracies. Appreciation of the present is likely to yield a

Though when I realise that there are comfortable facilities to appreciate tlre Phantom of tbe

it

reminded me of the one on the Swiss Centre in Leicester Square; which has a cowherd and lots of cows, while the local version has figures in traditional Chinese dress. However, where once I was impressed, I am now filled with wonder - wondering what has happened to it. It has disappeared, gone, it is no more, an

and the underdevelopment of the parklands without. It ceftainly isn't the

the Royal Geographical Societyto tum up here. It has now. Only a couple of weeks ago, a modest chap called Dick

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Cafl Goldstein bids farewell

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Former president Phlip Bowring, who saw Russell in Sydney, where he now lives, reports that he is alert, cheerf.¡l and talking about his next project. @ussell's most recent venture, a book on the govemors of Hong Kong, is to be published soon.) However, it is tikely that Russell will be in hospital for several more weeks and would welcome news of and from colleagues and friends.

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his favourite watering hole. He had joined the club in L957 and his number was 76. Mr Liao, then our bat managet,

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Begg is a ver-t-ry nice man, but he drinks too much." It usually spurred Ken to greater effort.

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F service, attended bysome United States, where he of his surviving RÀF budflew for four years with Some of Ken Begg's friends at drx i?nþro,1rþtlt tttake Jor l.tittt ¿tt tlte l;Ca. dies, other pilots and non-scheduled airlines, friends. The casket was draped with Congolese army. Ken, who happened before accepting a job with Korean the RAAF flag as Ken taxied for his to be there in his DC-4, taxied at full National Aidines, mainly to be near last take-off. A small group of his Hong Kong again speed towards our intrepid camerafriends also gathered in Hong Kong One of the many tales of Ken's man, opened the door and dragged pay to tribute to a remarkable man. they managed unusual approach to life dates from him inside, after which Ken is survived by his daughter, the earþ Sixties, when he flew for a to take off, thus saving van Kan from European aidine based in London. It who knows what kind of fate. Next Kerene, and wife lrene, who supplied the information for this obit. theymet in1966, this time in the safe was then that he ran into a young and Hugh Van Es daring Dutch cameraman, Edvan Kan surroundings of the FCC, where many (later a fellow FCC member), on a a glass was hoisted amid the telling of E@ Tf,E cORRXSP0tllHlT Àugust 1995

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