for instance, his amendment No. 9
whereas the UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expression attaches considerable importance to the creation of conditions conducive to media diversity. You can't be me, I'm taken
Final vote: the draft opinion was adopted by 33 votes to 1, with 0 abstentions.
Before flaying them with ethernet cables we should at least find out exactly what they did and didn't vote for.
There is a list of 242 amendments here in PDF. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes
Motion for a resolution C. whereas the unrestricted concentration of ownership might jeopardise pluralism and cultural diversity and whereas in certain markets it is approaching a limit whereby pluralism will no longer be automatically guaranteed by free market competition, Amendment C. whereas experience shows that the unrestricted concentration of ownership jeopardises pluralism and cultural diversity and whereas a system purely based on free market competition alone is not able to guarantee media pluralism,
Amendment C. whereas experience shows that the unrestricted concentration of ownership jeopardises pluralism and cultural diversity and whereas a system purely based on free market competition alone is not able to guarantee media pluralism,
A few of these around 24, described as 'fallen.'
Good news: Someone is fighting our corner Bad news: They're not winning.
Even so - getting this into the minutes has to count for something.
I imagine that - with the enormous amount of written documentation - that sometimes legislation emerges that has been beaten into submission in earlier committees, and bubbles on upwards to the surface of voting as 'accepted wisdom' without the original opposing arguments ever being reconsidered.
I can't decide whether this carefully designed process can be gamed or not. You can't be me, I'm taken
I'm not sure how the legal status can be clarified. The law seems clear enough in cases of libel or defamation, and it's not as if tradmedia have a particularly clear legal position.
The rest of the document is some rather limp and half-hearted discussion of tradmed plurality, with a view towards going forward etc etc towards guaranteeing standards and a vague sense of unease that perhaps too many media barons might not be an entirely good thing.
Maybe Brussels can turn this lettuce leaf document into a fierce protection of media consumer rights. Somehow I doubt it.
In the meantime we seem to be safe from 3am visits from the State Blog Police - so I think we can relax for now.
we seem to be safe from 3am visits from the State Blog Police
I'm sure Phony Tony's got you on some terrorist watch-list somewhere in the bowels of MI5. You just don't know it yet.
This MEP is very condescending towards blogs, but that's par for the course in Serious journalism nowadays. Joke Line will undoubtedly be knocking down our door any day now.
Doesn't seem to be a terribly worrying thing to me. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
