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The MBC in-house trade union on Thursday demanded the broadcaster get
to the truth about research by cloning pioneer Prof. Hwang Woo-suk. It
said at the heart of a scandal over Hwang and MBC¡¯s ¡°PD Diary¡± had been
¡°the question of the authenticity of Hwang¡¯s results,¡± not the
strong-arm tactics reporters used to investigate it and therefore the
suspicions ¡°must be examined and resolved transparently.¡± The union
also called on the conservative press ¡°to stop its MBC-bashing and
return to reason, and end parrot-like, incessant one-sided pro-Hwang
journalism.¡± Since Wednesday, MBC has reportedly been urging the union via various channels to tone down its rhetoric, but to no avail.
Meanwhile, damage to MBC continues from revelations about ¡°PD
Diary¡± reporters¡¯ methods in their efforts to dig the dirt on Hwang and
his team. Viewer ratings for the broadcaster¡¯s flagship ¡°News Desk¡± at
9 p.m. weekdays are falling way below 10 percent, recording a mere 5.8
percent on Tuesday and 6.3 percent on Wednesday, falling way behind
KBS's ¡°News9¡± (24 percent) and ¡°News at 8¡± on SBS (9.7 percent). Seven
advertisers cancelled their commercial slots during the program. (englishnews@chosun.com )
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