Criticizing the government to worry about the Hong Kong Press Freedom Index announced

The results of the investigation report released by the Hong Kong Journalists Association showed that the Hong Kong Press Freedom Index hit a new low last year. The main reason is that the interviewees believe that the media criticized the government.

According to the online media report on July 7, the Hong Kong Journalists Association announced the "2022 Annual Press Freedom Index Investigation Report", showing that the public and news workers believe that Hong Kong's freedom of press freedom is backward from the previous year.Among them, the public score is 41.4, and the score of journalists is 25.7 points, which has set a record low since the report in 2013.

From March 6th to 20th this year, the Institute of Public Opinion of Hong Kong has been commissioned to visit more than a thousand Hong Kong residents. According to reports, the public press freedom index scores., Formulate the journalist's self -assessment of the press freedom index score.

The results show that the public score of the Press Freedom Index in 2022 was 41.4 points, down 0.6 points from 42 points in 2021.The score of the journalist was 25.7 points, down 0.5 points from 26.2 points in 2021.

The Association of Ji reports that according to the analysis of questionnaires, the main reason for the decline in scoring is that the interviewees believed that the media criticized the Central and SAR governments when they had scruples and self -examination.

97%of the journalists who interviewed the employees believed that the high -level news of the position was charged with incitement of the freedom of the news.big.

The Association also mentioned that Ming Pao stopped publishing Zunzi comics in May this year, causing a cicada effect in the journalism industry, and reduced social information that the public could receive.

Reverse the association reiterate that if information circulation and the freedom of the press are damaged, it will affect the business environment of Hong Kong and emphasize that the freedom of press is guaranteed to maintain the status of Hong Kong as an international Asian financial center.