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Bill: Removal of State Media Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Party
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 2492
Description[?]:
| We propose that no media institutions should receive state funding. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station 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 a national TV station 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 | 21:32:38, November 26, 2007 CET | From |  Coburan Conservative Party | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | No, a single national television & radio station is useful for educational/information services. |
| Date | 21:35:08, November 26, 2007 CET | From | National Party | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | One imagines that if subsidies by the government, they will always have a biased viewpoint when it comes to information. |
| Date | 22:13:46, November 26, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Reform Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | Yep, support this, free and independent media is better choice than our current.... |
| Date | 22:26:37, November 26, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | "CNNN is an honoured public institution. There is absolutely no question that it serves our citizens, and keeps them informed in a non-biased manner." - Chancellor McLeish |
| Date | 01:00:32, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | "We will protect our public insituions and culture from the horrific massicure that the NPC is proposing" Harry Jenkins, DLP spokesman for Culture |
| Date | 07:51:46, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Civilization Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | "It's ONE public radio and TV network. There's still plenty of private ones to choose from. It's not like the privately-owned media sources aren't biased, too." - Brad Jenkins, a CPC representative in the Assembly |
| Date | 11:45:04, November 27, 2007 CET | From | National Party | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | "Aye but they are justified in their bias, a taxpayer funded network isn't justified in its bias" |
| Date | 13:00:21, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | "That makes absolutely no sense. So, a corporately funded network supporting all it's benefactors by distorting and propagating a warped view of Terra is justified in it's bias? I fail to see how. All journalism should strive to be objective regardless of whether they are private or public. You haven't even shown our national network to be biased anyway." |
| Date | 18:52:44, November 27, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Conservative Party | To | Debating the Removal of State Media Bill |
| Message | "We recognise the government bias and decidedly don't care - the national network is a positive tool to inform the citizens of goings on." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 204 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 192 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 64 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson |