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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 06 2019, @04:21PM (1 child)
The main issues that need fixing in terms of journalistic ethics are the fairness doctrine being reinstated and they need to stop going for fair and balanced. They need to go back to objective. Some issues just don't have 2 sides with equal validity. And in most cases that's the case, the anti-vaxxers do not have an equally valid viewpoint to those that generally support vaccinations. The people who are pushing the corporate takeover of everything do not have an equally valid point to those that want to ensure that corporations are subjected to regulations to prevent them from destroying the country.
The news media behaving as if those sides all have the same level of validity in terms of beliefs is a huge part of why we can't solve our biggest problems. You have people thinking that it's valid to cut taxes on the richest people while we have tens of thousands of homeless people, including some who actually work fulltime jobs.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday April 06 2019, @05:10PM
Or maybe it's people who want regulation scaled back to a sane level versus Luddites willing to burn down society just to spite their favorite bogeyman. The proper rhetoric can spice up a mere disagreement over regulation, but maybe it's not so useful for determining who has a legitimate viewpoint.