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Bill: Medienprivatisierung, 3618
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberale Volkspartei
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: February 3619
Description[?]:
Herr Präsident, we doubt that the subsidization of non-profit media is really necessary, given that our media landscape is diverse and competitive enough to guarantee informational pluralism and the articulation of all kinds of opinions. There will always be some media specializing in entertainment and others in information and educational purposes - there is simply no need for government to run subsidized and state-approved radio or TV channels for that purpose. Sepp Holzinger, MdR LVP-Mitrania Wirtschaftsminister |
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 | 18:09:51, February 06, 2014 CET | From | Die Sozialdemokraten | To | Debating the Medienprivatisierung, 3618 |
Message | Herr Präsident, Even if what the Hon. Member says were real, the fact is we cannot dispose beloved national treasures just to please the whims of the so called market. There are things which matter more than the market and some of them are treasured public broadcasting stations beloved to millions. People first, not market delusions! Johan Gehrig MdR DS Chairman DS-Kuratha |
Date | 18:44:16, February 06, 2014 CET | From | Hosianisch-Demokratisches Verbund | To | Debating the Medienprivatisierung, 3618 |
Message | Gicho-sama, The pluralism of the market is not the pluralism of society, as Holzinger-sama will be well aware. Pluralism isn't merely based on what sells best; it's what gives everyone a stake in our media system and guarantees the provision of high-quality and diverse public broadcasting. It's about long-term emotional attachment, not short-term market mechanics. The KRS is among the most respected news broadcasters in the region, and individual broadcasting associations serve to reflect in the public broadcasts the diversity of the public sphere. I don't care that when you lump all viewers together, there may or may not be any market for a Jien-Kamist-inspired broadcasting organisation rooted in a cultural group I affiliate with, but at least it's still there and it gives social groups that would be lost in the uniform anonymity of the market a stake. To privatise it would go against its educational, informational and community-building purpose and amount to abolishing public broadcasting altogether. If Holzinger-sama pretends to do this on behalf of the government, he is not doing it on my behalf and without consulting my department, which is the competent department here. I suspect not on behalf of the Staatsminister, Goddestreu-sama, and the HDV fraction either. This is a LVP bill, not a government bill. hijo ni rippana Yoshiro Agashi (HDV - Hilgar) Education and Culture Minister |
Date | 22:53:13, February 06, 2014 CET | From | Liberale Volkspartei | To | Debating the Medienprivatisierung, 3618 |
Message | Herr Präsident, this was never intended to be a government bill, obviously, and if there was unclarity about this then I apologize for it. Both Gentlemen's arguments seek to divide "people"/"community" and "market", as if there was an irreconciliable, fundamental difference between these terms. This is, however, untrue - the market is not a technocratic, synthetic construct, but is created through the voluntary interactions of free people, who act individually or collectively, as lone persons or communities. To our friends in the HDV, the market might only be an economic necessity for effective wealth creation, and for the Social Democrats it might even be nothing more than a necessary evil, but for us it is the sole conceivable sphere in which people, as communities or individuals, can pursue their goals freely, and thus a goal in itself. The so-called "anonymity" of the market is a myth just like the supposed antagonism between "market" and "people". Sepp Holzinger, MdR LVP-Mitrania Wirtschaftsminister |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||
yes | Total Seats: 195 | ||
no | Total Seats: 448 | ||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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