Movie legend lambasts media

Legendary actress Josephine Siao Fong-fong (centre) is not pleased with the state of Hong Kong media. At a press conference promoting a charity Chinese opera show next month featuring some talented youth performers, Siao was quite vocal in blasting the press's lack of decency and responsibility. A long-time advocate against child abuse, Siao set up the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation in 1998. What sparked her wrath was last week's risque Easyfinder cover, which depicted a 14-year-old member of a new girl group called Cream in suggestive see-through wet clothes.

'This is child pornography, linking an under-age girl with sex and doing it in a most appalling way,' Siao vented. 'Young people seeing these pictures will think it's okay to expose their bodies in this way in the media. I think the Next Media Group is being very irresponsible and should be charged with indecency. Why have Hong Kong people become so vulgar? I am also very disappointed with Commercial Radio DJs Sammy and Kitty [who invited listeners recently to vote on the person they would most like to indecently assault]. That example is even more serious because it's telling men it's okay to sexually abuse women.'