Media News - Thursday, November 26, 2009

Taiwan fines newspaper for motion crime news

A daily newspaper in Taiwan has been fined for illustrating news stories involving crime and violence in vivid animation on its Web site, an official said Thursday. The Apple Daily was fined 500,000 New Taiwan dollars ($15,500) Wednesday for using motion graphics to reconstruct and illustrate stories of rape, sexual assault and violence that appeared in the newspaper, said Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin. Regulators will continue to monitor the paper's new online and mobile phone service and may fine the paper on a daily basis for any explicit scenes of sex and violence, Hau said. Apple Daily — published by Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai — launched the "Motion News" service last week, a trial run as the Apple Group expands from print to television. The service is accessible only to those readers who pay a fee. The paper reported the penalty on its front page Thursday said it would review the "Motion News" service. The paper toned down its online and mobile service Thursday, using still images or motion graphics that show the backs, instead of fronts, of characters involved in a rape and an alleged assault of a child by her father. Editor-in-Chief Ma Wei-min said the paper would not drop the service altogether, although might consider making it less graphic. (AP)

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