Ming Pao Ends Taiwan Scholar Ho Ming-shiu’s Column After Editing Title on ‘Diversity of Taiwan’s Independent Bookstores’
《明報》終止台灣學者何明修專欄 文題寫「台灣獨立書店的多元化」遭編輯修改
Ho Ming-shiu, a professor in the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University who specialises in Hong Kong social movements, said on Facebook that Ming Pao had recently ended his column. An editor did not give a specific reason in an email, saying only that “many things could not have been foreseen at the beginning”. Ho also disclosed that an earlier article titled “Diversity of Taiwan’s Independent Bookstores” had been changed by the editor, without asking him beforehand, to “Independent Bookstores Operating in Taiwan”. He wrote: “Hong Kong has changed, Taiwan has changed, and the world has changed over these past five-plus years. We are all travellers passing through the same time and space, but we will head in different directions. May God protect Taiwan; may God protect Hong Kong!” According to statistics compiled by Light Media, at least seven Ming Pao columns were ended over the past two years.
專門研究香港社會運動的國立臺灣大學社會學系教授何明修在Facebook透露，其《明報》專欄近日被終止，編輯在電郵未有明言原因，僅稱「很多都是一開始未能預見的」。何明修又披露早前有一篇稿件標題是「台灣獨立書店的多元化」，編輯事先沒有問他，就改成「獨立書店在台經營」，更感慨：「這五年多來，香港變了，台灣變了，世界也變了，我們都是同一批的時空過客，只是會前往不同的方向。天佑台灣，天佑香港！」《光傳媒》統計資料，過去兩年《明報》至少有7個專欄被終止。