王大卫（David Ownby），加拿大蒙特利尔大学历史学副教授，中国现代史专家，东亚研究中心主任，法轮功研究专家，同情法轮功，著有《法轮功和中国的未来》一书。
王大卫接受加拿大国家法语广播电视台节目采访
关于《唐人街的不安》节目的审查报告
发布日期：2012年01月21日 文章来源：凯风网 作者：隋
伊（编译）
编者按：加拿大国家法语广播电视台曾于2008年10月30日 播放了新闻纪录片《唐人街的不安》，揭露法轮功组织造谣生事、借助神韵新年晚会招兵买马、与反华政治势力勾结等的种种内幕，引起加拿大社会对法轮功的深度关注。法轮功恼羞成怒，投诉该节目“对法轮功修炼进行了不公正的歪曲、贬低、污蔑和歧视。”对此，法语频道调查专员德切内女士通过搜集并阅读数百页相关资料、与相关人士进行谈话，撰写了专门的调查报告，逐条详细分析并解释了《唐人街的不安》节目中的内容，不仅进一步肯定了节目的真实性、权威性，还揭露了法轮功在接受调查的过程中企图用偷换概念、转移观众注意力及任意夸张事实等手段为自己开脱的嘴脸。最后报告得出结论：“整个节目研究很严谨，在相关领域的观察也很细致，并且是由知名专家进行分析的”，“投诉方的投诉毫无根据”。2009年1月27日 ，加拿大广播公司网站刊登此调查报告。
法语频道调查专员对加拿大法轮大法协会所提交的有关加拿大国家法语广播
电视台于2008年10月30日 所播节目《唐人街的不安》之投诉的审查报告
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Review by the Ombudsman, French Services
Complaint filed by the Falun Dafa
Association of Canada regarding the investigative report entitled Malaise
dans le
SUMMARY
The complainants believe that the
investigative report Malaise dans le Chinatown is erroneous, manipulative and
propagandistic, and has unjustly misrepresented, demeaned, maligned and
discriminated against the spiritual practice of Falun Gong.
The report would have been more balanced
had it contained an interview with Falun Gong spokespeople. However, the
spokespeople refused to grant an on- camera interview.
I have expressed reservations about the
selection of two interview clips and the formulation of one question, but the
report is otherwise based on serious research, journalistic observations in
the field, and analysis by recognized experts.
The complaints are unfounded.
COMPLAINTS
On October 30, 2008, the program Enquête
broadcast an investigative report entitled Malaise dans le Chinatown, probing the
Falun Gong movement's organization outside
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/enquete/2008-
2009/Reportage.asp?idDoc=67209
The Ombudsman's office has received some
twenty complaints about the report. The Falun Dafa Association of Canada,
which represents Falun Gong members, has submitted a 28-page complaint signed
by its president, Xun Li, to the Ombudsman. Below is a brief excerpt:
"[...] their program unjustly
misrepresented, demeaned, maligned and discriminated against the spiritual
practice of Falun Gong, which is currently suffering a brutal and
internationally recognized persecution at the hands of
The full text of the complaint is
available at the link below:
http://xiuxian.no-
ip.info/rescue/upload_images/Submission_CBC_Ombudsman_FDAC-final.pdf
Radio-Canada management responded to the
complaint as follows:
"[...] The feature does not deny
that Falun Gong members living in
One of the people interviewed, former
Member of Parliament David Kilgour, also filed a complaint with my office, in
conjunction with David Matas, a lawyer. Mr. Kilgour and Mr. Matas wrote a
report on the allegations of organ harvesting among Falun Gong practitioners:
"[...] The show "Enquête"
episode titled "Malaise in
Management defended the story, but Mr.
Kilgour and Mr. Matas were not satisfied with the explanations they have
received. The full text of their complaint can be viewed at the link below:
http://ahdu88.blogspot.com/2008/12/david-matas-letter-to-ombudsman-on-
cbc.html
REVIEW
I met with the journalists involved and
two representatives from the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, Lucy Zhou and
Michael Mahonen, viewed unaired segments of the interviews in question, and
read the hundreds of pages of relevant documents provided by the two parties.
Situation in
The complainants believe that the report
"did not provide the context of the persecution of Falun Gong," and
made "no attempt to examine numerous other forms of persecution suffered
by Falun Gong."
Below is a transcript of the introduction
to the broadcast, by host Alain Gravel:
"We heard a great deal about the
repression of Tibetans when the Olympic Games were held in
Falun Gong practitioners are increasingly
visible in expatriate Chinese communities, and
For about half the introduction, the host
focuses on the repression of Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners. At almost
the very beginning of the story, here is was is said on the movement's
historical context and violations of Falun Gong practitioners' rights:
NARRATION: "We don't know much about
Falun Gong. Founded in
INTERVIEW WITH LO.C TASSé, CHINA-WATCHER,
UNIVERSITé DE MONTRéAL: "The Falun Gong movement grew inside
NARRATION: "So the Chinese
government was amazed to see the size of the movement when 10,000
practitioners had the courage to challenge it on April 25, 1999: in silence,
they ringed Communist Party headquarters in
INTERVIEW WITH LO.C TASSé: "The
Chinese government is doing everything it can to break the movement and
eradicate it from
NARRATION: "Many practitioners fled
The introduction takes about 1 minute and
50 seconds. It is clear, and its statements are presented unequivocally as
facts:
"[...] launched a campaign to
eradicate [the movement]. [...] The Chinese government is doing everything it
can to break the movement and eradicate it from
In its complaint, Falun Gong provided
many additional statistics on the extent of arrest and ill treatment of its
practitioners, and would have liked them to feature in the report. That is
understandable, but their absence does not mean the report is biased. With a
free press, journalists have a great deal of leeway in their editorial
choices, provided they comply with the three principles underpinning
CBC/Radio-Canada's Journalistic Standards and Practices: accuracy, fairness
and integrity. (Appendix I: Ombudsman’s Mandate)
Freedom of the press and the
public interest
Falun Gong would have liked the Enquête
report to focus on the persecution of its practitioners in
Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of
our society, since freedom itself cannot flourish without the free flow and
exchange of ideas, opinions and information. (Journalistic Standards and
Practices [JSP], Preamble, 1)
Given that the press is free, reporter
Solveig Miller and producer Léon Laflamme had the right to examine the means
Falun Gong has developed to respond to the repression of its movement in
Critical reports on victim advocacy
groups are extremely sensitive, and there is no doubt this report undermines
Falun Gong's credibility by criticizing its methods. Journalists should be
aware of the consequences of their revelations, though consequence cannot be
their only criterion. For example, in exposing questionable accounting
methods applied in charitable institutions, the media may do some harm to the
causes those institutions support, but that is not sufficient reason to
refrain from investigating them.
The Falun Gong case is more complex. When
Western journalists criticize one of the principal movements standing against
the Chinese regime, their criticism bolsters the position of the regime,
which does everything in its power to discredit the group and others like it.
But is that reason enough to keep silent?
. Yes, write David Kilgour and David
Matas: otherwise, we confer legitimacy on a regime that disseminates
"hate propaganda" about its victims.
. No, says Jean Pelletier, Senior
Director in charge of the program Enquête:
Freedom of the press guarantees that no
issue is off limits, provided it is of public interest.
The production team – Solveig Miller and
Léon Laflamme – explained how they worked. When he attended the Chinese New
Year Spectacular in January 2008, Mr. Laflamme realized that some of the
choreography and songs were imbued with a pro-Falun Gong political message. Yet
there was nothing in the program to indicate that Falun Gong sponsored the
show. I leafed through the program for the 2008 show, and Mr. Laflamme is
quite right. In addition, New Year goodwill messages by Canadian politicians
printed in the program did not refer to Falun Gong either. That sparked the
question: why not openly state the movement was backing the show, which had a
political slant?
For her part, Ms. Miller was struck by
the revelations in Beyond the Red Wall (La persécution du Falun Gong), a documentary
on the alleged harvesting of organs from thousands of Falun Gong
practitioners, which aired on Radio-Canada.
Mr. Laflamme indicates he spent about ten
days in
I believe this to be a public-interest
issue, for a number of reasons. Understanding the tensions within the Chinese
community is of interest to the Canadian public. It is also useful for people
to understand the methods Falun Gong is using to draw the Canadian public's
attention to the repression it faces in
I find it readily apparent that the
Canadian spokespeople for Falun Dafa do not appreciate that aspect of the
investigation. They had the right to refuse their participation, as they did
after some six weeks of negotiation. There was a three- hour meeting between
Ms. Miller and Falun Dafa spokesperson Lucy Zhou, as well as many telephone
conversations and emails.
The team did not conceal the angle of its
report from Ms. Zhou, indicating its interest in Falun Gong-controlled media,
the movement's financial means, and the "propaganda war" taking
place in
The complainants criticize Ms. Miller for
having failed to mention the meeting with Ms. Zhou in her report. But a
journalist is not obliged to report all meetings that occur before the report
is shot; the journalist's only obligation is to convey the views of people
against whom a serious allegation has been made, even if those views are not
provided on camera. In the report, Ms. Miller says:
"Falun Gong states it has no
organization and requires no financial contributions from its practitioners.
Everything is done on a volunteer basis.
He refused to speak to us on camera, but
assured us that his newspaper is completely independent and objective."
It is short, but Ms. Zhou, spokesperson
of the Falun Dafa Association of Canada, Olivier Chartrand, Editor-in-Chief
of La Grande époque, and the organizers of the Chinese New Year Spectacular
all refused to grant on-camera interviews. In those circumstances, it is
difficult for me to fault Radio-Canada for failing to give sufficient
prominence to the Falun Gong viewpoint. The team more than once offered Falun
Gong further chances to explain its position, a process in compliance with
CBC/Radio-Canada's Journalistic Standards and Practices:
[...] In investigative programming, in
the interest of fairness, opportunity should be given for all parties
directly concerned to state their case... (JSP, IV Production Standards,11)
Falun Gong beliefs
The complainants state that the program
contains erroneous information on Falun Gong's beliefs. I asked them for
examples. Michael Mahonen did not provide specific examples, but maintains
that the aspects selected by Ms. Miller contribute to caricaturizing Falun
Gong and presenting its practitioners as bizarre and marginal people. Falun
Gong would have liked Ms. Miller to focus solely on the movement's general
principles, which are truthfulness, compassion and tolerance, as well as
non-violence. I read a number of articles and texts on the subject to
determine whether the report highlighted secondary and sensationalistic
aspect of Falun Gong's beliefs. Nothing led me to believe that was true: the
law wheel placed in the abdomen of practitioners seems to be a core element
of the Falun Gong belief system, since Li Hongzhi, the movement's grand
master, refers to it in his book, Turning the Law Wheel. The issue of
extraterrestrials was discussed at length by Li Hongzhi himself in a long
interview with Time Asia (May 10, 1999, Vol. 153, No. 18). Moreover, the fact
that Li Hongzhi believes himself to be one of the most important gods in the
universe is undoubtedly of interest.
Crescent Chau and the lawsuit
According to the complainants, in the
report "Crescent Chau is portrayed as a leader in
They also criticize the report for not
revealing that the article published in Mr. Chau's newspaper baldly accused
Falun Gong practitioners of bestiality and vampirism. In fact, the report
states that the article accuses the spiritual leader and those around him of
committing "criminal and perverted acts".
I believe that the complainants'
perception arises from a very simple point: Crescent Chau indeed has an
advantage in this report. Since he granted an on- camera interview, the
audience can hear him express his own point of view, and that goes some way
towards humanizing him. Visually, the report sets an apparently calm man,
seated at his desk, against demonstrators chanting slogans.
Above and beyond perception, the report
clearly establishes that Crescent Chau sparked things off by publishing an
article linking Falun Gong with criminal and perverted acts. In my view, Ms.
Miller could at that point have drawn attention to the similarity between
those serious accusations and the Chinese regime's anti- Falun Gong propaganda.
The significant similarity is indeed pointed out, but later in the narration:
"[...] his newspaper also takes the
opportunity to reprint anti-Falun Gong articles appearing in Chinese
state-controlled media."
Ms. Miller also points out that, even though
Falun Gong lost their appeal, the court ruled that the article on criminal
and perverted acts was defamatory. During our meeting, Ms. Zhou stressed the
fact that Falun Gong lost the appeal for technical reasons: the defamation
was specifically aimed at Li Hongzhi, who was not among the appellants. That
is accurate.
I find I have reservations where
Radio-Canada allowed Crescent Chau to speculate on the advantages some
countries would derive in using Falun Gong:
"It would be good for some countries
to support them for political reasons – the
Crescent Chau does not have the
credibility needed to engage in political analysis. He is a businessman,
clearly conducting a campaign to defame Falun Gong in his newspaper.
In her decision, Justice Jeannine
Rousseau of the Quebec Superior Court described Mr. Chau as follows:
"As a publisher or newspaperperson,
Mr. Chau is not impressive. The general impression the Court got from his
testimony was that the newspaper was simply a pretext to sell advertisements:
The content of the "articles" was of little importance."
The team points out that Mr. Chau's
statements were aired because he expressed out loud what many Canadians of
Chinese origin think in silence. That decision is debatable, because Mr. Chau
does not voice facts but speculates on the identities of parties potentially
interested in making use of Falun Gong.
Interviews
Ms. Miller interviewed David Ownby of the
Université de Montréal, a recognized expert on Falun Gong. I listened to
Professor Ownby's entire interview with Ms. Miller to determine whether he
had been incorrectly quoted. The finer shades of meaning in Professor Ownby's
thinking do not emerge in the report, but the excerpts selected do reflect
the content of the discussion. Here, I will include only one excerpt in which
Professor Ownby explains why Falun Gong has stopped trusting Western
journalists, and why practitioners have established their own media:
"During last decade, the
practitioners have become somewhat paranoid. They believe that they were
ill-treated by journalists . It seems to them that all the journalists tend
to adopt the same attitude as the Chinese Government. So the practitionners
decided to publish a newspaper by themselves to publicize their beliefs. In
this way, they can reach the public directly without resorting to the
journalists and the media."
During the interview, Professor Ownby was
critical of the way Falun Gong cloaks itself in secrecy, and of the methods
it uses to disseminate its message. In his book, entitled Falun
Gong and the Future of China (Oxford
University Press, 312 pages, March 2008), Professor Ownby discusses the
movement's gradual politicization. Falun Gong frequently uses the courts to
make itself heard. It files lawsuits against Chinese leaders as soon as they
leave
Organ harvesting
Lawyer David Matas, former Minister David
Kilgour and Falun Gong practitioners believe that the allegations of organ
harvesting have been handled in a "biased and misleading" manner. I
read the latest Kilgour-Matas4 report as well as United Nations documents on
the subject, and watched the interviews in their entirety.
In the report, a quote of a short initial
statement made by Mr. Kilgour during a press conference is very clear:
"If you read the report ...you'll be
appalled, but at some point you better say that this is happening."
The narration that follows reveals that
Falun Gong received Mr. Kilgour's support for its allegations that thousands
of Falun Gong practitioners in
However, in my view, the french clip of
Mr. Kilgour's interview can be confusing to ordinary viewers not familiar
with the issue:
"We provided 33 means of proof. For
reasons, for people who are independent, intelligent and understand the world
as it really is, I think they will have no doubt about this."
What is a means of proof, for instance?
The complainants would have liked the
report to explain the content of the Kilgour report. It is true that only 40
seconds were allocated to coverage of the Kilgour report. However, the team
deliberately chose experts sympathetic to the movement, David Ownby and
Amnesty International, to assess the Kilgour report's credibility. It would
have been unfair of Radio-Canada to ask recognized Falun Gong opponents to
criticize it and granted them time without giving equal time to its authors.
In the Enquête report, Professor Ownby
states:
"I read [Mr. Kilgour's] report
carefully. Since it's hard to get the first-hand testimony, they had to
resort to third-hand sources. They concluded what they could. Organ
harvesting is happening in
Further on in the interview, Professor
Ownby says he is on the side of well- known dissident Harry Wu on the issue.
In his book Falun Gong and the Future of China, he voices the same thought
even more clearly:
"There appears to be little evidence
that imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners have been a particular target of the
practice or that concentration camps have been set up to facilitate the
harvesting of practitioners' organs. On the other hand, it seems likely that
Falun Gong practitioners who are part of the prison population would be
candidates for harvesting, in part because at least some practitioners are
young and healthy, in part because the movement has been vilified within
China (...) But Falun Gong spokespeople clearly overplayed their hand when
they talked about concentration camps (or even a network of some thirty-six
concentration camps) and the huge numbers of prisoners who have been victims
of the practice (...) Sadly, when the evidence is not forthcoming to
substantiate the charges, Falun Gong inevitably loses credibility and
third-party observers come to doubt all information provided by Falun Gong
sources – and not just the sensational claims. This is unfortunate, for even
if concentration camps do not exist, the persecution of Falun Gong has been
real." (pages 224 to 226)
Amnesty International, which has
frequently denounced the repression of Falun Gong, investigated the issue in
Mr. Wu also sent teams to the hospital in
Sijiatun, where 2,000 corneas were allegedly harvested by force from Falun
Gong practitioners, and found no signs of mass murder. Mr. Wu believes that
allegation to be a lie. In the complainants' view, this does not mean Mr. Wu
repudiates the entire Kilgour report. I listened to the interview in its
entirety. Clearly, Mr. Wu does not consider anything Mr. Kilgour has written
on the issue to be credible, and believes that if 4,500 Falun Gong
practitioners had had their organs harvested, there would be at least one
witness somewhere willing to talk about it. Mr. Wu was also fairly
sympathetic to the movement until the organ harvesting allegations surfaced
in 2006, and he can certainly never be accused of supporting the Chinese
regime.
The United Nations documents I consulted
always used the terms "allegations" and "claims" in
referring to organ harvesting among Falun Gong practitioners. And though it
is quite true that the United Nations Committee Against Torture is pressing
the Chinese government to investigate the matter in order to determine where
the transplanted organs come from, that is no evidence Falun Gong is being
targeted.
The complainants several times returned
to the fact that Professor Ownby and others do not deny the organs of Falun
Gong practitioners have been harvested.
That is plausible. Given of the
government's repression of the movement, Falun Gong practitioners are
imprisoned. The government admits that inmates who are sentenced to death
have their organs harvested for transplant; some Falun Gong practitioners are
therefore likely to be among them.
That is not the issue, however. Falun
Gong alleges that its practitioners are specifically targeted for organ
harvest, and that thousands of them have been butchered in what are nothing
better than concentration camps. That is the issue raised in the Radio-Canada
report.
Chinese New Year Spectacular
The complainants found that Ms. Miller's
comments on the Chinese New Year Spectacular also demonstrated a bias against
Falun Gong. Until last year, there was no mention in the show's brochures or
programs to indicate it was organized by Falun Dafa. The production is funded
by New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV), a satellite TV network based in
The complainants criticized the report
for allowing lawyer and former Bloc québécois candidate May Chiu to say that,
in her opinion, the show is a Falun Gong recruitment tool. That is Ms. Chiu's
opinion, not Ms. Miller's. The complainants also believe that the report
should have included audience members' positive comments about the show. But
the question is not whether the show itself is a good one; it is whether the
show's organizers should have been more transparent. The offices of Premier
Charest and the Mayor of Montreal believe the organizers should indeed have
been more transparent. Both politicians supported the show without being
aware of Falun Gong's involvement.
Tension in
The complainants contest the fact that
their militant activities are generating tension within the Chinese
community. In their view, the tension is due solely to Crescent Chau and the
anti-Falun Gong propaganda the Chinese government is having disseminated
through the newspapers it controls outside
"There is a concern about the power
of Falun Gong, and at the same time there is another concern about the
Chinese government. So people might feel caught between those two opposing
powers and not really know where to stand."
The investigation showed that Falun Gong
– which is a victim advocacy movement – has a newspaper, radio network and
television network, and even a New Year spectacular, to spread its message.
It therefore wields a certain amount of power. In
Ms. Zhou complained that her image was
used in two Falun Gong demonstrations. The courts have indeed ruled that an
ordinary citizen has the right to control the use of his or her own image.
But according to a document on the
Ms. Zhou also said that the May 2
demonstration in
Lastly, one might ask why the report
would twice include images of Ms. Zhou blocking the camera lens with her
hand. According to the producer, those images symbolize the lack of
transparency Falun Gong demonstrated throughout the investigation. The team
even said that, as soon as Ms. Zhou saw the Radio-Canada cameraman preparing
to film the
The complainants criticize the fact that
the report mentions the death threat Mr. Chau received in a letter. The
reporting of such allegations is always sensitive, because they could simply
be fabricated.
Yet the death threat was in the public
domain, since Mr. Chau had printed it on the front page of his newspaper. The
Chinese community was aware of it. If Mr. Chau had spoken of the death threat
to no one, and if there had been no police report on it, mentioning it on air
would have been unacceptable.
However, I consider that Ms. Miller's
question to Mr. Chau on the death threat is not neutral:
"What makes you think it's from
Falun Gong?"
It was inappropriate to mention Falun
Gong, given the lack of evidence the threat came from the movement.
Reputation of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)
Falun Gong recalls the controversy
involving the documentary on Falun Gong, Beyond the Red Wall, broadcast on
CBC by the Corporation's English Services; it states that CBC has apparently
failed to be objective about Falun Gong in the past. I have told the
complainants, and will say it again, that CBC/Radio- Canada's French Services
and English Services make their own editorial choices, based on their own
criteria. In any case, different versions of the documentary – Beyond the Red
Wall and La persécution du Falun Gong – aired on CBC and Radio-Canada. The
investigative report Malaise dans le Chinatown is an idea sparked in the mind of a
Radio-Canada producer interested in
Conclusion
With a free press, Radio-Canada has the
right to investigate the organization and tactics of Falun Gong, as well as
the truthfulness of Falun Gong's statements, provided that it complies with
the principles of accuracy, fairness and integrity.
The report would have been more balanced
had it contained an interview with Falun Gong spokespeople. However, the
spokespeople refused to grant an on- camera interview.
I have expressed reservations about the
selection of two interview clips and the formulation of one question, but the
report is otherwise based on serious research, journalistic observations in
the field, and analysis by recognized experts.
The complaints that Malaise
dans le Chinatown is
erroneous, manipulative and propagandistic, and has unjustly misrepresented,
demeaned, maligned and discriminated against the spiritual practice of Falun
Gong, are unfounded.
Julie Miville-Dechêne
Ombudsman, French Services
CBC/Radio-Canada
January 27, 2009
APPENDIX I: Ombudsman's
Mandate
The Ombudsman
...determines whether the
journalistic process or the broadcast involved in the complaint did, in fact,
violate the Corporation's journalistic policies and standards ...
also known as the Journalistic Standards
and Practices (JSP, available at
http://cbc.radio-canada.ca/accountability/journalistic/index.shtml).
The journalistic policy is based on three
basic principles: accuracy, fairness and integrity.
Accuracy: The information
conforms with reality and is not in any way misleading or false. This demands
not only careful and thorough research but a disciplined use of language and
production techniques, including visuals.
Integrity: The information is
truthful, not distorted to justify a conclusion. Broadcasters do not take
advantage of their power to present a personal bias.
Fairness: The information
reports or reflects equitably the relevant facts and significant points of
view; it deals fairly and ethically with persons, institutions, issues and
events
(JSP, III, 2)
The Corporation's journalistic policy
consists of a body of rules that it has established over the years. Those
rules, aimed at developing journalism founded on excellence, go well beyond
the requirements of the Broadcasting Act. They set a standard that is
difficult to attain, but that all journalists must strive for.
A detailed description of the Ombudsman's
mandate is also available at http://www.cbc.ca/ombudsman/page/mandate.html.
APPENDIX II: Response from
Radio-Canada to the complaint
Dear Sir or Madam,
Some of our audience members wrote in
with comments about our feature report .Malaise dans le Chinatown., broadcast
in the October 30 episode of Enquête.
This feature report aimed to explore the
importance of the organization Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) outside
The group and its activities are still relatively
unknown. For instance, few Canadians are aware of the extent of the Falun
Dafa (Falun Gong) media network highlighted in our report. It is completely
understandable, and in the interests of the public, that a news network like
ours explore the structures, beliefs, funding and actions of a movement that
has gained significant momentum in such a short period throughout the world.
The feature did not deny that Falun Gong
members living in
However, the public broadcaster's mission
is to present various viewpoints on major controversial issues. This time, we
chose to look at the Falun Gong from another perspective. We made this
decision entirely independently, for journalistic reasons. Some have alleged
that we were seeking to curry favour with the Chinese government. We
completely refute these baseless allegations.
We felt that the numerous legal
proceedings involving the Falun Gong in
Our investigation was conducted with the
utmost care and all facts were checked several times. We gathered information
from many reliable sources. A number of the personal accounts are included in
our report.
Some of our viewers complained that we
did not interview Falun Gong leaders in
To conclude, we believe that we aired a
feature report that was of public interest and factually accurate and in
accordance with our standards and practices.
We hope that you find these comments
helpful. If not, and if you deem it necessary, we remind you that you can ask
Radio-Canada's Ombudsman to review the case.
I thank you for writing to us.
Sincerely,
Geneviève Guay
Director, Complaints Handling
Information, French Services
(Radio-canada.ca,
January 27, 2009)
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[1] 《法语频道调查专员对加拿大法轮大法协会所提交的有关加拿大国家法语广播电视台于2008年10月30日 所播节目“唐人街的不安”之投诉的审查报告》，加拿大广播公司网站（Radio-canada.ca），茱莉·米韦尔·德切内，2009年1月27日
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