The Romanian senate passed a law last week requiring the media to provide their audiences with 50 percent positive news. The bill’s creators say the law will help fight the harms of negative news and its effects on people’s lives.
But Romania’s National Council for Audiovisual Broadcasting, the group that will be responsible for deciding what is positive and negative, has criticized the bill, stating that news should reflect reality – whether positive or negative – independent of any laws.
But Romania’s National Council for Audiovisual Broadcasting, the group that will be responsible for deciding what is positive and negative, has criticized the bill, stating that news should reflect reality – whether positive or negative – independent of any laws.
posted by alan at
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update: the Romanian constitutional court declared it unconstitutional. so it won't happen. i guess that's good news :).
at a tv show, a journalist asked one of the guys who designed the project if corruption is good or bad news. it was a very good question :). of course, like most Romanian politicians, he wasn't able to answer.
oh, and the best point made on this subject was a radio showman asking this same guy (before the law was blocked) if he now has to introduce bad news, as long as he only has good news in his bulletin. brilliant.
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