Are you a businessman or newsman?

“Are you a business man? Or a news man?” said Al Pacino, in “the Insider, 1999”, co-starring Russel Crowe.
In the class “media leadership,” I asked the same question to the professor, Charlie, VP of marketing of America online, who gave me a more complicated answer, “in media industry, we, sometimes, ask another question: are you a business newsman or a news businessman.”

What a great answer!

Here is the same situation: former Taipei deputy, President Ma’s best partner, Kim made a final decision of turning down media mogul’s invitation to join his group and establish a new TV station.

From the beginning, I don’t believe Mr. Kim and Mr. Li can work together at all. Not about money, but all about concept, ideas, and directions, business and news. As we know, media in here suck for a long time. Readers can’t tell Good from Bad. Our news is more like entertainment news in U.S., filled with too much political, business, voyeurism and paparazzi, which, perhaps, attracts consumers temporarily, but loses its fair stand. This is the worst problem we face today.

At least, one man insists on his idea. Good for him, Mr. Kim.