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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.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:14AM
From reading his posts, his thing seems to be "I'm the only one who really cares about freedom above all else, so all of you are wrong from the start." Where "freedom" specifically means freedom to do whatever, whenever, and don't bring any of that Marxist class-analysis crap about sick, poor, hungry people not being free into it, because freedom means what the shitbird says freedom means, and anyone telling him otherwise is impinging on his freedom of thought.
That's the capsule summary anyway. He's also one of the "All taxation is theft" and "Show me my signature on the social contract" types.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...