A judge reminded the witness that he could only tell what he had seen with his own eyes, not what he had heard from others. The questioning then started, and the prosecutor asked the witness, ‘When, where, and by whom were you born?’ The witness thought for a moment and said, ‘I can’t tell you any of these.’
The above joke serves to illustrate the limitations of ‘seeing is believing.’ In fact, most of our knowledge comes from books, the Internet, professional bodies, and other media. However, in Hong Kong since 2019, both have been censored by the regime. We used to believe that the media would stick to their own professional codes and present information and views to users in an objective and multi-perspective manner. Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), a public broadcast service, used to produce programmes with objective substantiation and from the audience’s perspective, but after repeated criticisms from the leftists, it has been reshuffled to serve the interest of the regime and focus on China-related programs.
