KBS, Lee Sun-kyun’s phone call report manipulates the media for the drug war by calling him a ‘participant in a serious drug crime’

KBS, Lee Sun-kyun’s phone call report manipulates the media for the drug war by calling him a ‘participant in a serious drug crime’

 

This appears to be a violation of human rights because KBS defined the late actor Lee Sun-kyun as a ‘participant in a serious drug crime’ for reporting on the phone call and ‘stigmated’ him as a criminal through reporting on the incident.

Park Hee-bong, head of the social affairs department at KBS's news headquarters, said, "The media needs to uncover the truth in this case because drug abuse is a serious crime that has a great impact on public health and social order, and it is an issue of great social interest because a famous celebrity is involved." “I judged it to be great,” he said on the 10th of last month on ‘TV Criticism Viewers Desk’.

KBS ‘News 9’ exclusively reported on the phone call between Lee Seon-kyun and the head of an entertainment establishment on November 24. The KBS report even reported on a private conversation unrelated to the charges, and later, several media outlets published articles highlighting this private conversation in the title, and through their reporting, they defined Lee Seon-kyun and the director, a drug criminal, as the same “party.”

The Korea Communications Standards Commission announced on the 28th that it had received a complaint regarding KBS's report.

The Yoon Seok-yeol government promoted a 'drug war', and as the police continued to lack evidence for 'drug use', KBS showed cooperation in 'abuse of serious drug investigation rights' as a subject to strengthen public support for the drug war in the public summons system for 'informant investigation'. .
In a drug reporting case, an undisclosed report by a reporter who was classified by the media as a 'participant in the crime' before the judgment of the perpetrator and victim was made, and the reporting of the counterargument itself was added as 'strengthening the evidence of the participant', which constitutes media manipulation.

In the drug report investigation, Lee Seon-gyun, the caller and the manager of an entertainment establishment, was arrested as an 'informant's drug tip,' and it is known that evidence related to Lee Seon-gyun's drugs was not submitted in the original report, so the 'drug tip' and Lee Seon-gyun were separated from the 'reference'. did.
When Lee Sun-kyun did not admit to taking drugs, KBS requested a rebuttal about the 'phone call' with a criminal, and Lee Seon-kyun was lured into providing the article facts about 'admitting to the phone call', which is media manipulation.

KBS team leader Park defined drug abuse as a 'serious crime' and said in 'Involvement of famous celebrities' that "the report covers the positions and counterarguments of the parties involved in the incident, the police, and the celebrities in question," referring to the 'parties' and 'the celebrities in question.' were treated equally.

Actor Lee Sun-kyun, who committed suicide on the 27th, was a ‘subject of investigation’ who was separated from the ‘party to the case’ through the ‘drug criminal investigation case’ that started as a ‘tip investigation’, and Lee Sun-kyun himself maintained the ‘victim’ status at the time of the investigation.

When KBS reported on the Lee Sun-kyun case on November 24, it was revealed that it was classified as a 'victim in the investigation' and 'a person involved in the incident', and changed it to 'party to the crime' and reported on a private phone call, showing intentional human rights violations and defamation. 

In the informant investigation, Lee Seon-kyun, who is an indirect official with no direct relationship with the informant and no evidence of the report, cooperated to strengthen investigative powers by reporting the 'private phone call' on the public broadcast in order to change the indirect relationship into a direct relationship from a criminal charge limited to the manager of an entertainment establishment. 

<Drug investigation Lee Sun-gyun’s ‘penalty war’ due to ‘informant investigation tyranny’ imitating the U.S. drug war, see December 29, 2023>

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