如此TVB, 那麼亞視 Too Simple, Sometimes Naïve?

大約三年前的某夜，我看了TVB和亞視新聞不約而同選播的相同的兩則新聞：

先是報導北韓饑荒，指外界估計已餓死了近百萬兒童；骨瘦如柴的饑民畫面一過，下一個畫面是英國一條超重的寵物犬，主播嘴露專業的微笑，語帶新奇地報導，指法院以「虐待動物罪」裁決寵物主人須交納罰款。

我當時寫的印象是：TVB和亞視的新聞編輯要麼是為人涼薄，要麼是反諷高手，要麼就真如當年國家主席江澤民怒責香港記者那樣：too simple, sometimes naïve了。

現在我看，批評兩台是「是是旦旦」和「香港中央台」看來都太膚淺了：中央台也未必會「是旦」到不考慮人性和良知的地步吧。

ATV and TVB are two free TV channels people watch and rely on to know the society and the world, that means they have huge social influence(responsibility too!), but I really doubt the quality of the News editors, here are the news I watched from both channels about 3 years ago:

They reported there was famine in North Korea and said about one million children died, the TV scene showed the thin and poor little children; and then they reported another piece of news, with their professional charming smile that the scene changed to a very fat cat and they reported that the cat was so fat that the own was fined by the local court by charge of animal abuse.

How could a professional news editor do such crude and lousy job?! Are they showing off their talents of ironic? Or what they were doing was exactly as former president Jiang Zemin accused: too simple, sometimes naïve?