賴怡忠評：有關ROT公投的報導

有關紐約時報〈台灣兩位前總統呼籲公投，成立「台灣共和國」〉報導https://cn.nytimes.com/asia-pacific/20180301/taiwan-chiang-kai-shek/zh-hant/。學者賴怡忠這樣comment：

What kind of report is this? Fake news?

這算什麼樣的報導？假新聞嗎？

Those two presidents talked about they will support a referendum, should it exist, on issue of Taiwan Independence next year.

這兩位總統談到明年他們會在台灣問題上支持公投，如果是真的的話。

No independence referendum proposal exists, let along launched. It is still prohibited under current law. It goes down for them to ask DPP dominated LY to amend the referendum law to legalize this initiative for them to take action.

即便推出，也不存在可以獨立的公民投票提案。 根據現行法律，這仍然是禁止的。他們要求民進黨主導的LY修改公民投票法，讓他們採取行動合法化這一舉措。

Since no major DPP legislative leadership at the scene that day, I seriously doubt whether it can really move forward. And both presidents weren't uttering the word about "Republic of Taiwan" as told by my journalist friend who was there.

由於當天沒有民進黨主要的立法領導，我真的懷疑它是否能夠真正向前發展。兩位總統都沒有說出我的記者朋友在那裡講的關於“台灣共和國”的字眼。

Why do they suddenly conclude that there is a ROT-establishment action coming out?

為什麼他們突然得出結論說有一個ROT建立行動出來了？

The combination of stereotyping and imagination are very dangerous for foreign affairs reporting.

刻板印象和想像力的結合對於外交報導非常危險。