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Bill: Media Privitization Act I
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partisans And Artisans League
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: July 2070
Description[?]:
| Television should be entirely private so as to better represent the population of Beluzia. The unfair system of funding just one channel is archaic and unresonable. |
Proposals
Article 1
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 | 19:03:27, June 06, 2005 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | Hey, thats the channel with which I broadcast the hijinks, bloopers and treason from the opposition party headquarters! You can't take ''that'' away! |
| Date | 23:59:18, June 06, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | "archaic and unreasonable" - just in line with your party then..... |
| Date | 23:06:57, June 07, 2005 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | Careful with that sedition, private! |
| Date | 08:40:25, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Communist Party | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | It's not archaic and unreasonable. A publicly owned TV station that does not rely on profit can deliver programming in minority languages, such as overseas news services, as well as educational programs and documentaries...typically programs that do not turn much of a profit and thus mainstream private media will not cater for. In addition, with public funding, the broadcasts can reach rural areas that private media corporations have little interest in investing in because of the low profit incentive. |
| Date | 12:07:30, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | The television broadcasting network of communication masts has national coverage and provides even coverage to all parts of the country o it does reach "rural areas". |
| Date | 12:07:43, June 08, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | *so |
| Date | 05:35:46, June 15, 2005 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | don't forget the comic opera of the traitorous opposition party on candid camera! |
| Date | 01:23:10, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Front for a Solidarian Country | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | As our friends in the LCP have stated, publically-founded radios and television stations exist to do what private corporations won't do because its unprofitable: provide educational programs, reach far-away rural areas, minority languages, etc. |
| Date | 12:18:51, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | I've explained the "rural areas" argument |
| Date | 12:20:54, June 22, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Media Privitization Act I |
| Message | so the private sector is completely unable to provide educational programming? Actually you might have a point - have any of you seen Big Brother? *shudder shudder" horrible |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 46 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 226 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 28 |
| Random fact: Real life-life nationalities, cultures or ethnicities should not be referenced in Particracy (eg. "German"). |
| Random quote: "The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government." - Ayn Rand |