Tom Grundy, the man behind local blog Hong Wrong, has taken to Twitter to complain that the SCMP breached journalistic ethics when they failed to declare their conflict of interest in a story about Hong Kong business tycoons meeting with President Xi Jinping.
One of the tycoons present at the meeting was Robert Kuok, who controls Kerry Group, the largest shareholder in SCMP Group, which is the SCMP’s publisher. Oh and his daughter, Kuok Hui Kwong, is the executive director of the SCMP. Not an important detail at all!
SCMP fails to declare conflict as tycoons meet Pres. Xi http://t.co/6qwcf2n8cs …
Kuok biggest SCMP shareholder. pic.twitter.com/l0V6xqSvmZ
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) September 23, 2014
Grundy made a couple tweets to correct his previous ones, in which he referred to Xi Jinping as premier and in which he said Kuok is the majority shareholder, when in fact his Kerry Group is the largest shareholder.
If plastering your boss over front page being wined/dined by leader,you're meant to declare a conflict. Ethics 101 @ncyjoyce @wangxiangweihk
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) September 23, 2014
.@garykwcheung declared the conflict in his fluffy analysis http://t.co/x4yFU21rom so why not in the front page lead? pic.twitter.com/dxkh0MWw6E
— Tom Grundy (@tomgrundy) September 23, 2014
