I think your correspondent Mark Donovan missed the point in the letter he wrote on President Jiang Zemin's outburst against the Hong Kong media last month (South China Morning Post, October 30).
Whether Hong Kong's media are too negative and whether substandard reporting is prevalent on local television is not what the incident is about. Nor is it about Mr Jiang personally standing up to an immature line of questioning.
The media serve the community. The reporters are employed by the media to ask questions and file reports.
If the reporting standard is so low that viewers complain or stop watching the programme or switch to another channel, the station would fire the reporter or transfer that reporter to some other job.
So long as there is a market demand for 'substandard' news reports, they will continue to thrive. This is as true in Hong Kong as elsewhere in the world, including the United States.
Mike Wallace is a top-notch, seasoned journalist, but he is by no means representative of the standard of American TV-news programmes.