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Bill: State Funded Media
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvish Popular Front
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 2039
Description[?]:
| We think this country needs a tax-payer funded media! |
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: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
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: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the State Funded Media |
| Message | We have 200-channel cable, we have donation-funded channels, faith-based and secular, we have small underground radio stations that are allowed to exist due to the lack of a radio authority - WTF do we need state-funded propaganda? |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the State Funded Media |
| Message | To have a channel that's independent of funding. The state channel employees have to swear political independence and the ruling committee even more so. This is a channel devoted to education and culture, not some pre-war propaganda. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the State Funded Media |
| Message | Your talking about USA - in UK we only have 4 other channels. The point is that they are in the pocket of whoever is funding them and there are monopolies of the media eg clear channel and rupert murdoch. A station for the tax-payer funded by the tax-payer. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the State Funded Media |
| Message | Would this be 1 channel? What would it entail? What Programmes would be Shown? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the State Funded Media |
| Message | How much government control would be applied to programme making? |
| Date | not recorded | From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the State Funded Media |
| Message | No govt control - it is against law in Dorvik to employ govt employees in a political way. They would receive a grant every year to spend on what they wish. Every party gets equal time during election campaigns to make party broadcasts. Apart from that the decisions are upto the govener general, who gets to select what he feels are high quality programming. This gives the element of nurturing talent and originality as opposed to ratings-grabbing stunts. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 90 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 110 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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