Evident ca stirea (buna? rea?) de mai jos -- cu parlamentarii romani care au avut initiativa legislativa complet stupida cu echilibrarea stirilor bune-rele si infiintarea unei politii a stirilor -- a ajuns subiect (probabil si sursa de bancuri) si in presa internationala. Vorba articolului de mai jos: "Monty Python, esti mic copil!" ---------------------------- Vali "Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness." "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Aboneaza-te la <mailto:[email protected]> ngo_list: o alternativa moderata (un pic) la [ngolist] Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email? http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=ba039c3d-e2a4-4989-baee-eb 5b09364d1d <http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=ba039c3d-e2a4-4989-baee-e b5b09364d1d&p=1> &p=1
Out with the old ... George Jonas, National Post Published: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Radio Free Europe's report sounded like a hoax. News Equity Act? Wicked sense of humour, those lads. It was no joke. Romania's constitutional court just nixed a brainwave of the legislature that would have mandated "equity" between good news and bad news. The lawmakers of Romania sought to protect their sensitive countrymen by introducing a bill that would have obliged media outlets to balance bad news with good news at a ratio of one to one. The law, sponsored by senators from the irredentist Greater Romania Party and the National Liberal Party, passed unanimously in the upper chamber. Since the senate can enact laws pertaining to the audiovisual sector with no reference to the lower chamber, there was a genuine chance the senators' fancy could actually become law. Monty Python, move over. The senators didn't say how their affirmative action for "good news" would actually operate. Would the government install Equity Officers in every newsroom? And what would these officials do, balance dog-bites-man stories with dog-licks-man stories? Would an item about a plane crash be packaged with a montage of planes landing uneventfully? Nearly 20 years after a firing squad dispatched Romania's ruling Maoist couple, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu (good news) it seems their legacy still lingers (bad news.) All the same, the senate's "News Equity Act" proved too much even for Romania's constitutional court, which quashed the proposed legislation. The chairman of the National Audiovisual Council, who would have had to designate news items as "good" or "bad" under the senators' law, sounded relieved. He pointed out that news is news. It's neither good nor bad; it's what happened. Ah, but not if you ask people of dictatorial impulses. Managing the news is every martinet's dream. It's second only, if at all, to managing the language itself. [...] Copyright C 2007 CanWest Interactive, a division of CanWest MediaWorks Publications, Inc.
