For the name "Aqiu", I am afraid that many people are not unfamiliar, this was once a famous and powerful host of mainland CCTV, with a mouth that can speak well and said a lot of sharp words.
However, strength belongs to strength, and Aqiu's private virtues have long been controversial, not only supporting female college students, but also publicly shouting on his personal social platform account during the raging epidemic, demanding that China apologize to the world.
These words instantly aroused a large number of netizens to condemn him, and he was also dismissed by CCTV. Now, all these years have passed. What happened to Aqiu? Let's take a closer look at this.
Aqiu called on the Chinese to apologize to the world
As a ministerial-level institution directly under the State Council, CCTV is an important ideological and cultural base. For a long time, it has been a dream for many media graduates.
Being able to work at CCTV not only means that you can get the top benefits in the industry, but also have a stage where you can better display your talents, and you can meet more outstanding people during your work and let yourself have a broader vision.
Many media graduates have sharpened their heads and want to work at CCTV.
As a CCTV host, Aqiu has shown excellent hosting skills during his work and has been recognized by many viewers and leaders, but his performance in terms of personal morality is not satisfactory.
On February 20, 2020, when the whole of China was working hard for the prevention and control of the epidemic, countless medical workers were on the front line of the fight against the epidemic, paying a lot of hard sweat, and some even paid for it with their precious lives.
At that time, in order to fight the epidemic, the whole country had money and strength, and those who had no money and no strength obediently stayed at home to self-isolate and try not to add to the chaos.
At such a critical moment, Aqiu, as a CCTV celebrity, actually posted a dynamic on his personal social platform, publicly calling for Chinese to speak French in a slightly gentler tone, preferably with some apologies, and at the same time to bow to the world as soon as possible and apologize, saying: I'm sorry for causing you trouble.
As soon as this news was released, it was like a stone stirring up a thousand waves, which attracted a large number of criticism from netizens, and for a while, hundreds of thousands of comments quickly accumulated in the comment area under him, most of which criticized him himself, thinking that he was a proper traitor.
The implication of Aqiu's remarks must be clear to many people, that is, he believes that since the virus began to spread from Wuhan, China, and eventually spread to the world, it has caused human and economic losses to many countries.
So all this is China's fault, and it makes sense for the Chinese to apologize to the people of the world.
However, the origin of the virus was not determined at all at that time, but it began to spread on a large scale in Wuhan. Aqiu's remarks directly and arbitrarily blamed China for the origin of the virus, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many Chinese netizens.
And viruses don't know borders, so you can't simply assume that the country where the virus originated. That country needs to apologize, and that has never been the case.
Have the two countries of Sudan and Congo ever apologized for the Ebola virus, which originated in southern Sudan and the Ebola region of Congo, which has caused many human and economic losses to many countries around the world?
There have been so many disasters caused by Western countries in history, and Western countries have ever apologized for this?
The United States has ever apologized for the fact that the United States has launched so many foreign campaigns in its history, causing the displacement of ordinary people in other countries.
The virus only began to spread rapidly in Wuhan, on the mainland, and it is uncertain where it really originated? How can China be asked to apologize for this?
And even if the virus is really caused by some Chinese in Wuhan eating wild meat, we need to understand that the individual and the state are completely different concepts. How can a disaster caused by an individual rise to the entire nation and the collective?
Therefore, Aqiu's call for Chinese to apologize to the world is neither reasonable nor reasonable.
Second, he was dismissed and banned by CCTV
Having said that, Aqiu's nonsense quickly caused trouble for himself. Its subordinate unit, CCTV, can't tolerate its host and likes to talk nonsense like this. first adjusted his program arrangement, and then completely banned him.
Since then, Aqiu has never appeared on CCTV programs.
Regarding the fact that Aqiu was blocked by CCTV, most netizens naturally applauded and felt that CCTV blocked it well. However, a small number of netizens believe that CCTV's blocking move is inappropriate.
These netizens believe that even if Aqiu's post calling on Chinese to apologize is not right, it cannot be directly blocked! This obviously violates Aqiu's right to freedom of speech.
Some netizens said that although Aqiu's words were wrong, CCTV's direct ban was also a reflection of the intolerance of different voices, which was even more terrifying.
In short, the core point of these netizens is that you can disagree with Aqiu's views and criticize him, but defend his right to voice dissenting.
However, in fact, Aqiu's right to freedom of speech has not been violated, because his social account has not been banned or cancelled because of this, and he can still freely voice so-called different voices on it.
At the same time, Aqiu was not arrested or detained because of those words, how can it be regarded as a violation of Aqiu's right to freedom of speech in such a situation?
As for CCTV's move to block him, it is purely CCTV's freedom. After all, CCTV is a unit that makes a living by speaking, and it shoulders the important responsibility of guiding the correct values of society, and it is difficult to allow its employees to make some overly radical words, especially those that are contrary to CCTV's own position.
Once the employees are allowed to express their views arbitrarily, people from the outside world will naturally subconsciously regard the views of these employees as the views of CCTV itself, and then cause trouble for CCTV.
Therefore, CCTV's expulsion and banning is just fulfilling CCTV's own right to freedom of employment.
After all, Aqiu is an employee of CCTV, and CCTV feels that Aqiu, an employee, spoke inappropriately and harmed the interests of the unit, so he naturally has the right to fire and ban him.
In short, Aqiu does have the freedom to express his speech on social platforms. But CCTV naturally has the right to use this as a basis to decide whether to use a person's freedom, and at the same time, it also suggests that other organizations use this person's freedom. Other organizations also have the freedom to listen to CCTV's advice or not.
You can't just want to defend Aqiu's freedom of speech, but not defend the freedom of CCTV without using a person, which is undoubtedly an abhorrent behavior.
Many netizens think that Aqiu is just a person and a weak party, while CCTV is a unit and a strong party. The status of the two is not equal, so they will subconsciously want to help Aqiu defend his right to freedom of speech, and ignore CCTV's right to freedom of employment.
If Aqiu is not on CCTV, then he can naturally say whatever he wants on his personal social platform, but as long as he is still an employee of CCTV, then he needs to pay attention to not being able to sing in tune with CCTV when speaking on any social platform.
In fact, if Aqiu really feels that the Chinese have harmed the whole world and have to fight the epidemic hard, then he can go to the embassies of various countries in China to apologize one by one, and no one will stop him.
After all, the geographical location of CCTV is very close to the embassies of various countries in China, just a few stops away, why force all Chinese to apologize to the world?
3. Aqiu also raised female college students
Aqiu's original name was Meng Huang and he was born in 1968 into a military family. My mother was a Malaysian expatriate, and my grandparents died in Malaysia a long time ago.
Educated in a foreign country, Aqiu graduated from Guangxi Normal University in 1989 and worked in a local textile factory before being transferred to the Art Theatre.
During his time at the Art Theatre, Aqiu worked primarily as a playwright, especially for his award-winning plays, which allowed him to accumulate a wealth of expertise.
In 2003, Aqiu was transferred to CCTV to work and become a host, and soon his rich professional knowledge enabled him to speak a lot of sharp language in the program, making his reputation rise all the way.
It was also at this time that he married a graduate of a prestigious school named Xu Huanyu. With the further development of his personal career, Aqiu's temperament became faster and faster, and in 2009, the scandal of raising a female college student outside was officially reported, which made him fall into a public opinion storm for a while.
But Aqiu is not one of those celebrities who rely on personality to eat after all, so this public opinion turmoil has not had a substantial negative impact on his personal career.
continued to participate in the recording of many programs, and continued to attract the attention and support of many netizens with his daring and speaking style.
It was not until 2020 that his words calling on Chinese to apologize for the epidemic completely ruined his career at CCTV. Because of this, many celebrity hosts have also chosen to draw a personal line with Aqiu, and the products they endorsed before have also been strongly resisted by netizens.
Now that so many years have passed, Aqiu's hosting career has been completely ruined, I hope he can learn a lesson and stop talking nonsense.
epilogue
All in all, looking back on this part of Aqiu's experience, we can't help but wonder: where is the boundary between freedom of speech and responsibility?
Aqiu told us with his own fate that as a public figure and media person, we must not make some extremely irresponsible remarks.
Freedom of expression, no matter where it is or at all times, is not a decision without borders. At the very least, a person's freedom of expression must be based on respect for facts, others and the State.
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