Another guest added, “I agree with Director Qian’s view. A person like Zhang Ye should be forced out of the entertainment industry as soon as possible. I’ve seen his ‘Zhang Ye’s Talk Show’ before. It’s full of nonsense. It is indeed a very bad influence. The investigation team of the the Shanghai SARFT’s Chief Li did not make any mistakes. Such a program should be axed as soon as possible to prevent undue influence. Also, I want to urge those industry insiders and netizens who joined in Zhang Ye’s revolt. Do you know what you are doing? Do you all still know how to tell right from wrong?”
A few guests castigated Zhang Ye, and scolded him in all sorts of ways!
Only one guest proposed a different view. The guest was a middle-aged woman. She had a common face, and looked like a mass media reporter. “Whether ‘Zhang Ye’s Talk Show’ violates regulations, I will first not talk about it. Actually, the reason why this matter caused such a huge controversy has to do with a few pirated WebTV programs that plagiarized ‘Zhang Ye’s Talk Show’ without being halted. They were not even punished. Everyone’s content was more or less the same. Some of the joke segments from a few talk show programs were even copied directly from Zhang Ye, but ‘Zhang Ye’s Talk Show’ was halted. Zhang Ye was used as a classic example, and then forced to apologize and reflect, while those programs that plagiarized his program did not pay a single cent in copyright fees, and still remained fine. I believe this is the reason behind Zhang Ye’s rage. It is also the reason why some people in the industry are speaking for Zhang Ye, and also the reason why the netizens are mad. All of this resulted in the Shanghai SARFT’s website’s denial of service.”