[Interviewer with Passionate Blood]
Recently, reporters are constantly receiving e-mails in a specific format.
Who, how, and who sends these tips?
In addition to the informant, one company name is listed in this report email.
I went to that website.
'Report to 1,000 broadcasting stations and media companies and 20,000 reporters at once!' It can be seen as a kind of news reporting agency.
However, one phrase stands out.
Is '100% success rate of coverage and reporting' real?
No, I'm curious as to how you can say that there is a 100% chance of becoming an article if you just report it. I met a client who had experience reporting here in the past.
The informant had a conflict with the lessor over the jeonse money issue, and paid 300,000 won to an agency to request the report.
[Informant (News Reporting Agency Client): Broadcasters and all these places with high viewer ratings (on the website) all have 'reviews', so I have no choice but to believe it and pay money here...
.]
Reports were sent to reporters via e-mail within one day of payment, but the article did not go out even after a week.
When asked why, the agency speaks slightly differently.
[News information agency employee: It will be a little difficult there (terrestrial), maybe.
There's a separate reporting team there...
.]
The informant, who had been waiting for more than two weeks, said that he would sue the agency for fraud if he did not give a refund, but an article appeared in an internet media the very next day.
However, the article was written based on the information of the informant without a single call to the informant.
The informant immediately followed the press.
Then, the media company contacted the agency and said they would refund.
It's like you know each other.
[CEO of ○○ Press: I will call the person who reported it (the reporting agency) and ask them to return it.
I can only return the money.]
However, the reporting agency can't return the money, and the article says it hasn't been published.
The representative of the reporting agency sends an e-mail written in plain language, rather as if mockingly.
The reviews posted on this website are also suspicious.
The SBS article was also introduced as a press case,
[Choi Seon-gil/Reporter: It was an article I wrote by covering the police investigation contents or data, but I don't know why this was posted as a review on the reporting agency site.]
It was difficult to believe the reviews like this.
Now, let's go to the news agency's office.
I came out following the address at the bottom of the website, but I came to the floor where the news agency office is located, but I can't see the company name.
Instead, there is a press office on the same floor.
It is the media company that first wrote the article when the informant first reported it.
If the reporting agency asks for an article, I asked if it would be unconditionally written.
[CEO of ○○ Press: It is not a business partnership, but a business partnership.
help...
.]
[CEO of the news agency: You don't know (the reporter) all, you know, you sent it by email.]
While the whistleblower is arguing with the reporting agency over the issue of refund, the news agency claims that it is a coincidence that the article was published.
Advertisements written by the reporting agency '100% coverage/reporting success rate' may violate the Labeling and Advertisement Act.
[Kim Seong-hoon / Attorney: Because it is connected to a considerable network of people in the media, it can give the feeling that it is easy to be published in an article if you report it to them...
]
As soon as the coverage began, the news agency apologized to the informant and refunded the request fee of 300,000 won.
In this way, there should be no more taking advantage of the earnestness of the informant to take advantage of and undermining the public nature of the reporting process.
(Video coverage: Mun-San Bae, video editing: Tae-ho Yoon, CG: Kim Jong-un)