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TRADE PACT SIEGE: Sunflower movement sets up own media division
By Chen Yen-ting and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Members of the Sunflower movement’s media division hold their first press conference at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chen Yen-ting, Taipei Times
Sunflower movement students opposing the cross-strait service trade agreement announced yesterday that they have established a media division in the hope of facilitating relations with the media and also letting the majority of Taiwanese understand what they are protesting about.
The movement’s spokesperson Chiang Chi-chi (江其冀) said the students’ opposition to the trade pact is a drawn-out affair, but the protesters hope that relations with the media remain cordial.
“We hope the media will be able to adequately portray what is happening inside the legislative chamber so our fellow Taiwanese understand why we are opposing [the trade pact],” Chiang said.
The Chinese-language United Daily News yesterday quoted student representative Lai Yu-fen (賴郁棻) as saying: “We have had many altercations with the media in the past due to reporting issues, and due to the increasing amount of work generated by writing press releases, conducting and attending foreign media interviews, and appearing on local political show call-ins, we have established a division specifically tasked with handling the media.”
Chiang also said the students not only hoped to relay their message through the media, but also to gather information to pass on to the two main student leaders, Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆) and Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷), so they could get more rest.
During a lunch with the media yesterday, the student representatives said that due to the lack of a positive response to their demands from the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) they are determined to continue to stage their protest “indefinitely.”
source: Taipei Times
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