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Bill: Charter Act
Details
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2036
Description[?]:
| An Act to create a charter for a national not-for-profit independant media corporation. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | 1. There shall be established a corporation called the Luthori Broadcasting Corporation. 2. It shall be funded through a fixed state subsidy determined by Parliament. 3. It's content and programming shall be determined by a Board of Governors, appointed by a Parliamentary committee containing members from all parties. 4. The aims of the LBC are as follows: (a) to inform and educate the public through programming, (b) to maintain an unbiased editorial viewpoint, (c) to provide a stable atmosphere for journalistic, televisual and radio talent to be encouraged. 5. LBC Governors must promise political independance. 6. Contravention of the Charter Act by the LBC will result in immediate withdrawl of stade subsidies. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | (Since I can't get such a large description in.) |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | This charter has the Labour Party's full support. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | No. Government. In. Media. this 'independant' media orginisation is run by people who are appointed by parliment. That's Government Media, folks. |
| Date | not recorded | From | House of Thompson | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | Yes, it will be run by people who are appoined by the Parliament (soon to be Congress). However each party will be represented in the comittee. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | We afree with the NFP. No matter how much you say that it will be "politicaly independent", it will still be biased, no doubt about it. We will vote against this bill if it comes to voting. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | Andrew McInally: Government is not equal to parliament. Government are the people who run the country. Parliament is who they are answerable to. How can it be biased if all parties have a say in who is to be appointed? If the governors were solely appointed by the Government, you might have a point, but they're not, because Government is not the same as parliament. Add into it that a contravention of the aims of neutrality and information adds up to an immediate withdrawl of state funding, and I really don't see how you can still say this will be biased in favour of the government. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | The media exists as one form of control the people have over the government. It is the media's duty to report wrongdoings within all branches and parties. I am 100% positive that this 'independant' media source will not bite the hand that feeds them. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | 1) the content is determined by the board of governors 2) the governors are appointed by parliment. if someone in parliment commits a crime, do you really think that the board of governors will allow the man who gave them their position to be shot down by the media? i think not. |
| Date | not recorded | From | House of Thompson | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | We believe that the LBC would be subizidied by government, therefore it should be added. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | Andrew McInally: If they willingly censor a news story to make sure they do not "bite the hand that feeds them", they are in contravention of section 4 of the act, both failing to inform the public, and the maintenance of an unbiased editorial view. Therefore, they shall have all state subsidy withdrawn. |
| Date | not recorded | From | National Forwardist Party | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | and who does the withdrawing? |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Charter Act |
| Message | Andrew McInally: It would be law. The Government would have to withdraw the subsidies that the State pays the LBC because it is set down in law, much like the Government has to dissolve the Parliament after 48 months because it is set down in legislation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 6 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 34 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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