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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: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:18AM (5 children)
As a denizen of the fascist right you have literally zero perspective to determine where anything to the left of you lies on the spectrum. Anyone who thinks CNN is hard left has never read The Nation or Jacobin Magazine.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:43AM
Nah, you are just a stupid libtard. The network that hires multiple commentators who have signed non-disparagement contracts with republicans [google.com] is totally a hard-left organization. Don't you know anything? Republicans are a leftist party through and through.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:44PM (3 children)
I'm not remotely on the right, yo. I am an actual liberal. Not a "progressive" which used to be more or less the same thing but "someone who believes in liberty". Progressives are not truthfully leftists. They're just another flavor of right-wing authoritarians who aren't even able to see what they've become.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:11PM (1 child)
Yes, yes, yes. We've all heard your "I'm a classical liberal because I'm an ultrabigot" sophistry straight out of the intellectual derpweb. That's what happens when some fool thinks he knows more about the humanities than his profs and tunes them out. The rest of us paid attention and developed an immune system to bullshit, you on the other hand never became a critical thinker. And now you are such a mental weakling that weakest of the weak - the neo-nazis - have colonized your mind. You walk around spouting their talking points like a genius, unaware of them yanking the strings they've attached to all your insecurities.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:49PM
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @09:35PM
"I'm not remotely on the right, yo. I am an actual liberal."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!