TNAG-1730-FCO40-2443-Minutes-and-Hansards-of-the-Legislative-Council-of-Hong-Kong-1988 — Page 124

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are already very complicated, but if we do not clearly outline

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the channel of executive-recommendations, I am afraid that i-

the end we will have to fall back on the existing system and in the end, all of the District Committees will have to take up the job of implementing the recommendations of the Commission,

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and they may find this an extra burden added to their original

work.

There are a number of youth problems in Hong Kong and I would

like to say something on the more serious ones. First of all,

we know that the mass media is very influential on our young

television people. The young people today cat be called the TV generation.

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Their outlook on life actually is shaped by the movies that

Apart from they see and the popular songs that they listen to. The mass media other than performing the entertaining function, also the mass media shoutol atas

play, me role of education. Was the function to educate, so,

of youth policy, we should also

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into take account of how we can take account

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ask our mass media to provide a young people. The Broadcasting Authority to be set up

certainly will be able to play a very positive role in this

area. It can monitor the mass media and urge the mass media to provide better programs, and the Film Censorship Bill to be enacted passed shortly certainly will be able to protect our young people from bad influences. And finally, I hope that the

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cable stations to be set up will provide better educational and topical programs. We hope that it will provide us with 27 more diversified and high quality programs so that the mass 28 media can perform a more positive social function.

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Sir, with these remarks, I support the motion.

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