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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 mendax on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:46AM (1 child)
There is something that should be noted about the Supreme Court in recent decades. It has been very hesitant to tolerate any infringement of the First Amendment. This proposed commission will die a deserved death in the courts. I doubt the case will ever made it as far as the Supreme Court.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by DutchUncle on Monday April 08 2019, @02:00PM
Did you notice that Republicans violated precedent to stall Obama's supreme court nomination (and other judgeships), and Republicans are now violating precedent again to speed up an already-record pace of new judgeship appointments to fill all the things they held open? I wouldn't rely on precedent in the court.