Reporting on the news of "Phoenix Spreading Wings" was fined by the NCC Zhongtian appeal was successful

Source: Huaxia Graticule

Taiwan's Zhongtian News Station reported on February 18, 2019 ,2019 "Phoenix Cloud" news was fined NT$400,000 by the NCC, Zhongtian filed a protest against the penalty, lost the first instance, and successfully appealed to the second instance. (Reproduced from Youtube's "Zhongtian News" channel)

According to Taiwan's "Zhongshi Electronic News" reported that Taiwan's Zhongtian News Station reported the relevant news of the "legislator" by-election in Tainan the previous year, one of which was "a phoenix spreading its wings and clouds appeared in the sky of the three mayors", which was fined 400,000 yuan (NT$, the same below) by taiwan's Communications and Communications Commission (NCC) in accordance with the "Satellite Radio and Television Law". After Zhongtianxing resisted the punishment, lost the case in the first instance, and appealed the whole case to the Taipei High Administrative Court, the collegial panel found that the original trial had not fulfilled its obligation to investigate and that there was a violation of the judgment without reasons, and the original judgment was abandoned and sent back for a new trial.

Zhongtian February 18, 2019 noon news report "Vision?! The three mayors appeared in the sky with "phoenix spreading wings" clouds, and the evening news re-reported "Folklore Experts: Daji Tianhou LuHan gathered in the heavens to show the phoenix clouds?!!" The NCC believes that the content has not been verified, guiding the public to combine specific political figures with the theory of strange forces and chaotic gods, and violating the "Wei Guang Law" for 400,000 yuan. Zhongtian filed a complaint to protest punishment, but lost the lawsuit in the first instance, and Zhongtian appealed again if he was not satisfied.

Beigaoxing pointed out that when the NCC held a consultation meeting on this news, a total of 16 members attended, 9 suggested "sending a letter for improvement", 3 suggested "not handling", and a total of 12 people determined that it did not violate the "law", but the NCC's final resolution, fragmentary selection of a small number of 4 members' opinions, found that Zhongtian violated the law, without explaining the reason for not adopting the opinions of other members.

In addition, the original trial found that the news was "harmful to the reliability of voting", but there was no relevant evidence left evidence, moreover, when Zhongtian broadcast the news, there was a text marked "Folk Beliefs Please Do Not Believe", and the meteorological name of the clouds and its causes shown in the reporter's narration explanation did not involve violence, bullying and other content that could easily have a negative impact on children and young people, or cause anxiety or panic among the readers.