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Bill: RSP Media Reforms Bill -2512
Details
Submitted by[?]: Revolutionary Socialist Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: August 2513
Description[?]:
| Its time to stop relying on private media to get our facts from , media should be independent from both government and private hands . However they should receive subsides from the government otherwise they will be hard done by to create funding also if they are to obtain their own funding this could tamper with them being independent . This is NOT nationalization of media , the RSP does not support a government run media nor a private one . |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: All radio stations are private.
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 owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: All television media are private.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: All TV stations are owned by independent non-profit-making cooperatives which are subsidised by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:53:52, January 07, 2008 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the RSP Media Reforms Bill -2512 |
| Message | If government funds the media then it can dictate what can be reported. |
| Date | 21:25:54, January 07, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Party | To | Debating the RSP Media Reforms Bill -2512 |
| Message | No they can't , their independent , alot better than corporate media , and if they weren't funded by the government where are they to obtain their funding ? |
| Date | 23:03:39, January 07, 2008 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the RSP Media Reforms Bill -2512 |
| Message | Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Ever heard of that saying? |
| Date | 23:07:44, January 07, 2008 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the RSP Media Reforms Bill -2512 |
| Message | "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." – Noam Chomsky |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 202 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 548 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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