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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:20PM
Journalism has NEVER been about truth. Whether state-controlled, or "free", journalism has always been political, with an agenda. The "duty" of a state controlled press, is to preserve and advance the state. The "duty" of a "free" press is to advance the agenda of which ever party has influence with that news source. The other "duty" of any press, is to make a profit, ie, to get those ratings.
My, and your, favorite news outlets are guilty of folding, spindling, and mutilating the truth, routinely. Same is true of our least favorite outlets. OAN, or One America News ranks among my favorites, but I am perfectly aware that they have an agenda, no less than Fox or CNN have their agendas.
Sometimes, I actually have an un-American thought, and wonder if things would really be any worse without our "free press". The Brits and the Canucks seem to be better informed than most of our citizens, without all the lip service to "free press".
Did a search for some examples, and this one is so far over the top, I couldn't resist it: https://www.stormfront.org/forum/t1174281/ [stormfront.org] Yeah, I know it's not a real news outlet, but still . . . :^)