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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:25AM (2 children)
Yeah, well the court just ruled that its ok to literally torture someone to death. And Gorsuch supported that rationale by saying "well victims aren't guaranteed a painless death either" as if the state should have equal moral standing to murderers.
Clarence Thomas has admitted he's been mainlining Rush Limbaugh for decades (literally officiated one of Limbaugh's marriages at his own house even), Scalia had similar media consumption habits. You can pretty much assume that all the conservatives on the court have had their brains rotted by fox news or worse and are likely to rubber-stamp whatever idiocy rises out of the fever swamp of the GOP for the forseeable future.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 06 2019, @04:07AM
Thomas has not been doing well since Scalia's death. He has to pay a spirit medium utterly ruinous rates to maintain the ether link to the crystal ball he's had surgically implanted in his skull so Scalia can keep telling him what to and, indeed, what to think. The occasional tortured scream or whiff of supercritical sulphur is an unfortunate side effect, and is not doing his breath any favors. I am told he also had a plaster cast made of Scalia's right arm, which he has permanently inserted up his rectum, but it's just not the same.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:20PM
Now that would be interesting if say EIB Media were to be slapped with a "Ethics in Journalism Act" violation suit.
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