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Hostile media organizations: Threat to Vietnam’s political stability (Part II and End)
Hostile media organizations: Threat to Vietnam’s political stability (Part II and End)
20/4/16
Need to help international community understand
When on-line
communication became popular throughout the world, Vietnam also quickly gained
access to this latest element of information technology. After five years of
opening the national Internet Gate, Vietnam’s IT development is equivalent to
that in many regional countries, with 250,000 subscribers, 1 million users and
4,000 public Internet establishments. These achievements could not have been
fulfilled in such a short period of time without support of the Party and
State.
In fact, the Vietnamese
State has never banned the Internet rather on the contrary it has actively
encouraged people to use it. The State even provides favourable conditions for
business to use and develop e-commerce. The Internet has become an important
form of communications in the socio-economic life of the country and daily
attracts more users. The ill-intentioned and hostile forces have not accepted
this reality. They have deliberately distorted the facts in an attempt to
protect reactionaries who use the Internet as a tool to disseminate poisonous
information against the homeland. Vietnam has developed regulations to expand
the use of the Internet as well as TV programs via satellite. But Vietnam will
resolutely prohibit anyone using the Internet or any form of communication
against the country. Any sovereign nation in the world would take similar
actions to ensure national stability and sustainability. Even the US has
applied tough measures on Internet control. The US Congress also approved an
Act allowing its security agencies to bug telephone calls, e-mails and the
Internet which has caused controversy worldwide.
Freedom of press and Internet in Vietnam even has been
abused by many anti-government elements. Some overseas Vietnamese newspapers
have keen to cover information relating to detentions and trials of Nguyen Van
Dai, Le Quoc Quan, Tran Minh Nhat, Nguyen Dinh Ngoc, Ngo Thi Minh Uoc, Nguyen Thi Tri,
Nguyen Thi Be Hai, etc and
some other people who violated the Vietnamese law. Those law violators
distributed false documents on the net or voiced different viewpoints contrary
to Vietnamese guidelines and policies, causing instability in the country. But western
media and reactionary overseas presses have protected those violators and
accused Vietnam of suppressing them. It is very dangerous when hostile
forces intentionally distort the truth, disseminate false and fake information
and fabricate stories. Their tricks could make people confused with
information, lead people to doubt their beliefs, cause anxiety and fluctuation
in thought, poison information available to society and harm social security
and political stability. Their hostile information campaigns against Vietnam
have a widespread negative effect on the political system and society.
The Vietnamese media
should, therefore, promptly come up with stronger communication campaigns to
counter untrue and slanderous information spread by hostile forces on such
issues as national sovereignty, religion, democracy and human rights. The media
should play an important
role in disseminating the 12th Party guidelines and State policies and made
considerable contributions to the struggle against hostile forces’ insidious
schemes, including "peaceful evolution".
Reporters should be aware of insidious schemes behind
normal acts and behaviours of hostile forces and sharpen their pens for
convincing articles of high fighting spirit. In addition, they should gather
information from various sources. It is very necessary because young journalists
have few chances to go abroad and they do not understand that the issues
hostile forces intentionally use are more serious in their countries than in
Vietnam.
In this era of scientific and technological development,
the first and foremost task for media is to show reality. It should also be
more rapid and dynamic, be renewed, and expand its voice to other areas.
In recent times, the Vietnamese press has made positive
contributions to the fight against peaceful evolution.
First, it regularly and timely rejects the enemy’s biased
and slanderous allegations and lays bare their dark moves behind important
events. Newspapers and magazines including VOV provide regular features and
commentaries on hostile forces’ "peaceful evolution" scheme, clearly
reflecting the combativeness of the Vietnamese press.
Second, the style of writing is critical but convincing
to win the hearts and minds of people. In carrying out their functions and
tasks, press agencies have their own ways to refute the enemy’s distortions and
wrongdoings. VOV, Vietnam Television (VTV), Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper, Quan
Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) Newspaper and the Communist Magazine are the most
important tools which have provided a long series of sharp commentaries.
Third, all press agencies are active in combating the
enemy’s scheme of peaceful evolution in different ways, from laying bare their
wicked moves behind hot events to attacking the weaknesses of the capitalist
society, from coping with their criticism to systemically putting forward the
Party and State’s leading viewpoints on such major issues as freedom,
democracy, human rights, ownership, multi-sectoral and socialist-oriented
economy.
Fourth, the Vietnamese press is fully aware of the need
to fight and build at the same time. Fighting peaceful revolution is not only
to reject fabrications, distortions and slanders but, more importantly, to
demonstrate the Party and State’ correct guidelines and policies, aimed at
consolidating the stance of people, especially Party members who are a focal
point in the peaceful evolution scheme of the enemy.
And not just media, all competent agencies should quickly make public
all cyber sources, magazines, newspapers, organizations and individuals
providing and disseminating false, fake, bad and poisonous information and
cultural products, and deal with such cases in a swift, serious and thorough
manner. More importantly, competent agencies should apply modern technology and
equipment and efficient measures to stop bad and poisonous information
prevailing on the Internet./.
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All comments [ 10 ]
Reporters should be aware of insidious schemes behind normal acts and behaviours of hostile forces and sharpen their pens for convincing articles of high fighting spirit.
Slander about Vietnam’s press repression, particularly on the Internet is sheer fabrication and unjust.
Vietnam can proudly declare that in this country people from all walks of life, young and old alike, have access to information through diverse forms of communication.
Vietnam was the first country in the world to control SARS and the international press praised Vietnam for this achievement.
Therefore, magazines play an important role in the fight against such schemes through non-violent and indisputable methods.
By carrying out this scheme, hostile forces aim to distort the socialist regime in Vietnam and shake the will of the Vietnamese State in military, economics, culture, society and other fields.
They fabricate and distort the human rights situation in Vietnam, accuse the country of suppressing religions and restraining religious freedom, and distort the Vietnamese law by saying Vietnamese people have no freedom of speech.
Many foreign reporters have also made important contribution to refuting wrong information, distortions and fabrications by outsiders and even opportunists in the country.
An advantage is that online newspapers in Vietnam like VOVNews, Nhan Dan and website of the Communist Party of Vietnam provide up-to-date news by combining the three types of the media (picture, voice and printing).
We must be active in dissolving reactionary groups, neutralizing the enemy's organizations from outside, preventing collaboration between the forces outside and inside, and not allow them to carry out sabotage activities.
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