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posted by martyb on Friday April 05 2019, @10:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the first-we-need-an-ethics-board-for-politicians dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:57PM (#825389)

    Eh, CNN is just another bullshit reality-show where all they do is hire talking heads to yell at each other and say nothing of substance. Its all fake drama for "the real housewives of wherever" crowd. Other than being pro-greed I don't think they really have a bias. MSNBC might be closer to what you are ascribing to CNN. But they, like all major news media, are owned by billionaires and operated by multi-millionaires and are paid by ad revenues so they still have a very strong top-down pro-greed bias, its just a little more contained.

    The fact is that CNN (and MSNBC) love trump. Business has never been better. He loves them too, he needs an enemy for his sycophants to focus on instead of him when things go wrong. Much like the mullahs in Iran need the USA to blame whenever they fuck something up there.