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Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board'

posted by martyb on Friday April 05 2019, @10:39PM   
from the first-we-need-an-ethics-board-for-politicians dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Georgia Republicans Push for State 'Journalism Ethics Board':

Six Republican state representatives in Georgia have moved to create an "ethics board" for journalists that would require news organizations to provide copies of pictures and audio and video recordings of interviews to subjects who request them or risk civil penalty.

The cost of meeting those requests would be paid by the news organizations.

The proposed legislation, House Bill 734, titled the "Ethics in Journalism Act," was sponsored Tuesday by Rep. Andy Welch, who represents the city of McDonough.

The bill would create a board of media professionals and academics that would produce"a canon of ethics" and "develop a voluntary accreditation process in journalism ethics," which would also allow for the investigation and sanctioning of journalists.

This bill isn't really about local news publishers (although they would be censored too) this is about censoring CNN which is headquartered in Atlanta.

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• You call it Censorship. You call it Censorship. (Score: 0, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 05 2019, @11:03PM (5 children)

  by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday April 05 2019, @11:03PM (#825169) Homepage Journal

  If the Dems made the same move, you'd call it Transparency. I think it's a great move. But, I wouldn't trust C.N.N. to give an honest copy. I learned the hard way about those assholes -- Koi Pond Incident. Now I always bring my own Camera Guys. Some of the footage they get is a real eye opener. And C-S.P.A.N. is amazing too, they did the "tape" of Jim Acosta of C.N.N. -- terrible person -- doing something HIGHLY INAPPROPRIATE to one of our beautiful young interns. And actually I thank Infowars for that one too. Great job!!!! pic.twitter.com/T8X1Ng912y [t.co]

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• Re:You call it Censorship. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:09PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:09PM (#825172)

  And C-S.P.A.N. is amazing too

  You're watching CSPAN. I read that wrong. You're watching CSPAN? [youtube.com]

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• Re:You call it Censorship. Re:You call it Censorship. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:13PM (3 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:13PM (#825174)

  CNN will only have to move to another country to avoid real news... like California.

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  • Re:You call it Censorship. (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday April 05 2019, @11:56PM

    by khallow (3766) on Friday April 05 2019, @11:56PM (#825190) Journal

    At least until journalists start getting executed for wrongthink. Probably would be best to go for something not near the bottom in craziness.

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  • Re:You call it Censorship. Re:You call it Censorship. (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:03AM (#825305)

    CNN will only have to move to another country to avoid real news... like California.

    I see you're learning geography from FOX News.

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    • Re:You call it Censorship. (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:49AM (#825322)

      CNN will only have to move to another country to avoid real news... like California.

      Which Mexican country was that again?

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