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Bill: Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426
Details
Submitted by[?]: Front Canrillaise
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2427
Description[?]:
Seeing as pro-market parties dominate the Assembly, the Parti d'Aristocratie proposes to privatize all facets of the media, thereby ending any involvement of the government from here on in. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: All radio stations are private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: All television media are private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 23:49:05, July 10, 2007 CET | From | Parti Union Nationale | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | Support. |
Date | 02:37:16, July 11, 2007 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | "Terrible. Rildanor must have somewhere to turn for quality news! Privatizing all media and undermining the cooperatives will jeopardize quality journalism and give the Parti d'Aristocratie's largest supporters, the aristocrats, a degree of control over our national media that is entirely unprecedented. Non, non, absolument pas!" -Mufeeda Rjiya MNA, 2nd Tirali EASL candidate for Chancellier |
Date | 16:44:34, July 11, 2007 CET | From | Partie Démocratique Libéral | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | "We oppose. We have opposed EASLs extreme proposals for complete nationalization of the media, and we will oppose this extreme proposal for complete privatization. Eliminating all cooperatives endangers quality, untethered journalism and leaves us open to the threat of monopoly. The people of Rildanor deserve an impartial news source! This proposal would put all media at the mercy of advertisers and corporate interests, and put freedom of information in our informed society at risk. The standing law allows for-profit media without the possibility of monetary interest covering the eyes and ears of the nation, and I urge a vote to keep it that way." -Vivian Aiton MNA 4th Zirdor |
Date | 18:15:52, July 11, 2007 CET | From | Front Canrillaise | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | Competition will spur the media to put out the best quality work. |
Date | 23:48:49, July 11, 2007 CET | From | Lutte Féministe de Libération | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | "We already have competition with the present laws, and we would have competition under EASL's media reforms (although, admittedly, competition of a different kind). The comments of the Parti d'Aristocratie are certainly ill-informed. I'd remind my ally and partner M. Aiton that EASL has never endorsed the nationalization of the media. EASL believes national control over the media to be as bad as commercial control. EASL will oppose both mistakes equally. EASL endorses, instead, devolved control to independent cooperatives, with subsidies to ensure their continued sustainablity." -Adrien Durand MNA, Provincial-West, Morbanack EASL Assembly Leader |
Date | 02:18:25, July 12, 2007 CET | From | Front Nationaliste Royaliste | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | "Someone needs to return M. Durand from Lalaland and soon. It's getting entirely too easy to prove him wrong." -Jean-Frédéric Rouvier FNR Chairman |
Date | 22:06:53, July 12, 2007 CET | From | Alliance Démocratique Ecologiste Rildani | To | Debating the Privatisation des médias - Privatization of Media, 2426 |
Message | we do not support, national radio and TV, along private ones can bring a light of culture in the ambiant commercial morass |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes |
Total Seats: 62 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 38 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
Random fact: Players who consent to a particular role-play by acknowledging it in their own role-play cannot then disown it or withdraw their consent from it. For example, if player A role-plays the assassination of player B's character, and player B then acknowledges the assassination in a news post, but then backtracks and insists the assassination did not happen, then he will be required under the rules to accept the validity of the assassination role-play. |
Random quote: "I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it." - Niccolo Machiavelli |