Iceland 'home of free speech'
We read:
"Iceland's parliament has approved proposals to create some of the world's strongest protections for free speech and investigative journalism.
Fifty lawmakers voted today in favour of drafting strong media protection legislation, while one abstained and 12 were absent. The package of proposals requires the government to change Icelandic law to strengthen journalistic source protection and improve government transparency.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, one of the lawmakers behind the measures, says the new legislation could make Iceland a global home for freedom of speech and boost the country's international standing.
Source
Could be handy
11 comments:
Why not go all the way and make a law "requiring" the media to be truthful and accurate. Now that would really be something!
"media to be truthful and accurate"
Fox Noise would have to go out of business.
Anon,
Maybe…
But that would be sometime after MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The LA Times, The Washington Post, AP, and many others go out of business.
Luke,
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL. Delusional as ever.
Anon, you can laugh all you want, but that does not make what Luke said any less the truth. Compared to everyone else, Fox News is the most balanced. I have read articles on Fox news that are critical to Republicans and even hint that they might have been wrong. You will never catch any other networks daring to do anything so crazy concerning a Democrat.
Every new outlet is wrong except for Fox News. Is that what you are saying? You people are nuts. I continue to LOL at you and your pals here.
Well, given that even Harvard (well known for its leftist bias, and Elena Kagen's current employer) thinks the media is biased. (Sorry, but the link is older, and Investor's apparently requires a subscription to access old stories.)
"Just like so many reports before it, a joint survey by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — hardly a bastion of conservative orthodoxy — found that in covering the current presidential race, the media are sympathetic to Democrats and hostile to Republicans.
Democrats are not only favored in the tone of the coverage. They get more coverage period. This is particularly evident on morning news shows, which "produced almost twice as many stories (51% to 27%) focused on Democratic candidates than on Republicans."
The most flagrant bias, however, was found in newspapers. In reviewing front-page coverage in 11 newspapers, the study found the tone positive in nearly six times as many stories about Democrats as it was negative.
Breaking it down by candidates, the survey found that Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were the favorites. "Obama's front page coverage was 70% positive and 9% negative, and Clinton's was similarly 61% positive and 13% negative."
In stories about Republicans, on the other hand, the tone was positive in only a quarter of the stories; in four in 10 it was negative."
It also included a handy chart, but I couldn't track it down from a free source in the time I had. However, this article does have a similar chart under the Tone of Coverage subheading.
Why not go all the way and make a law "requiring" the media to be truthful and accurate. Now that would really be something!
Why?
We have never had in this country a media that is not biased. Never. Not once.
Do you really think that the Boston Massacre was a bunch of soldiers picking a fight with innocent people?
Do you really think that "taxation without representation" was truthful?
What has happened is not that the media has become biased, but rather we have followed the media like sheep. Most people cannot conduct a conversation on current events anymore.
The law in Iceland is as misguided as the so called "press shield" laws in the US. A member of the press should not be above the law that the rest of have to abide by simply because of their job.
"Why not go all the way and make a law "requiring" the media to be truthful and accurate."
---And just who is going to decide who's being truthful and accurate? The Ministry of Truth?
No, all we have to do is let the marketplace weed out the liars. Fox News dominates because their hard news coverage is unbiased and their opinion programs present SEVERAL points of view.
Iceland was a victim of the US's overheated capitalism and the Earth's overheated interior!
"Fox News dominates because their hard news coverage is unbiased and their opinion programs present SEVERAL points of view."
Exactly! Like, Coulter, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Palin, Morris.
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