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Taiwan: boycotting mainstream media

Categories: East Asia, Taiwan (ROC), Media & Journalism, Protest

Wang Chien-Ming [1], a Taiwan baseball player who was called up from the Yankees’ AAA affiliate, the Columbus Clippers in 2005, issued a open letter on 17 of August saying that he would reject all the Taiwan mainstream media interview because his privacy had been infringed. Ilya blogs a press release to support Wang's action, saying that collective boycott is a citizen movement to actively monitor the media malpractice (zh) [2].