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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 Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 06 2019, @04:57AM (2 children)
I do have a tendency to see the worst, mostly because so much of the worst has happened to me and my friends, it's true. But my concern is that the legislature and the judiciary have become so compromised, so permanently corrupted (especially in the SCOTUS's case) that "rule of law" as we have is just dictatorial fiat, or will soon degenerate into that.
There is a very good reason good/evil and lawful/chaotic are orthogonal axes in tabletop games, I think...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday April 06 2019, @11:17AM (1 child)
There is a distinction between them, yes, but IRL the things are not that clear cut. Reason is: give it a bit of time and both the lawful/chaotic extremes of the axis will tend to collapse into evil.
Extreme chaos - each situation is equiprobable, the simple fact that the number ways to be evil are far higher then the number of way to be good will guarantee evil
Extreme lawfulness - everything is governed by rules - is too rigid for anything better to be even considered, much less attempted. Any change to the environment wil shatter the rules; try "fiat justitia, pereat mundus" without adjusting the justitia and the mundus will pereat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:21PM
BINGO! And *that* is why I am Neutral Good :)
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...