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.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @11:46PM (2 children)
What will be even funnier is when Faux News gets ensnared by this debacle. "W-w-what?!? You mean these laws that we pass apply equally to our side too?!? Why that is just plain anti-American!!!"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:52AM
Neither side ever remembers that. I can only assume they're either dumber than shit, insane enough to think their party will ride in upon a tide of righteous public support and never again lose power, or both.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Monday April 08 2019, @01:40PM
Calvin & Hobbes comic on exactly this topic: https://lifeexaminations.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/calvin_and_hobbes_ethics.jpg [wordpress.com]