Media News - Thursday, August 28, 2008
Korean broadcasters face sanctions for comments during Olympics
Korean broadcasting companies face sanctions for their commentators' inappropriate or racial comments during the coverage of Olympic Games in Beijing. The Korea Communications Standards Commission said on Monday that it will hold a committee this week to determine the level of penalty on major national television networks - MBC, KBS and SBS. The Commission will also review MBC's negative or disrespectful comments on some nations. The broadcaster used short captions to introduce each participating country when their national teams entered the main stadium during the opening ceremony on 8 August, but some of them were discriminatory, which drew severe criticism. It described Sudan as 'unstable due to prolonged civil war;' Cayman Islands as 'infamous for tax evasion;' and Chad as 'the dead heart of Africa.' (Korea Times via Media Network Weblog)
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