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, @11:04PM (1 child)
Didn't Chelsea Clinton get a plum deal as a "journalist"?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 08 2019, @12:44AM
She is on the board of the Daily Beast's InterActiveCorp [bloomberg.com] which is packed with such people as Comcast/NBC/Universal's Bonnie Hammer, Disney/ABC's Michael Eisner, Twitter's David Rosenblatt, Hollywood's Bryan Lourd, and the Rothschild family's Edgar Bronfman Jr. What, you thought these were different businesses with different interests? Nope, they are all one big family. One body. One corporation, as the Romans would call it. One that is too big to jail.