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Bill: Public Media Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Citizen Nationalist 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: November 2948
Description[?]:
| A bill to create government funded unrestricted public media sources in Television, and Radio. |
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: All radio stations are owned by the state.
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:: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: All television stations are owned by the state.
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 | 17:35:32, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Citizen Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Public Media Act |
| Message | This is a concept similar to the concepts of PBS/NPR, and the BBC. |
| Date | 23:21:25, May 28, 2010 CET | From | Kafuri Democratic Front | To | Debating the Public Media Act |
| Message | Would vote in favor. |
| Date | 19:07:12, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Liberal Democrats | To | Debating the Public Media Act |
| Message | actually, this more like BBC, PBS is a collective of independent non-profit stations. |
| Date | 20:49:31, June 03, 2010 CET | From | Citizen Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Public Media Act |
| Message | Except that PBS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which is a Government corporation ie federal funding. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 122 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 243 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 168 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson |