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One day after the prime minister blasted Chosun Ilbo and Dong-A Ilbo, Uri Party Chairman Lee Bu-young echoed the prime minister¡¯s criticism of the two conservative daily newspapers. Lee said that the two newspapers acted as if they controlled the nation and that their arrogance could not be accepted in this day and age.
At a meeting of senior party officials, Chairman Lee said that attempts by the conservative newspapers and the opposition party to obstruct reform bills, to go against the times and to return to an age of Cold War divisions were anachronistic. Lee also said that Chosun and Dong-A both cooperated with former authoritarian governments and Japanese colonial rulers, and laid off journalists who had fought for freedom of the press during the 1970s under authoritarian regimes. He called for the newspapers to apologize to the public. The chairman lent his support to the prime minister, saying that he was concerned about the two newspaper¡¯s distortion of public opinion and attempts to maintain vested interests acquired during the Cold War.
(Park Doo-sik, dspark@chosun.com )
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