Dear Grace,
As we wrap up, just a concern, we have
not heard many media people contributing to these discussions. Or could
it be the list has just a few and their views will be captured in a different
forum before the bill moves to the next stage?
Perhaps it would have been more
interactive if we got various views from the people this bill is meant
to address directly.
Lydia
Grace Githaiga <ggithaiga@hotmail.com>
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Hey People,
I realize you got diverted by the
internet price issue and the prime time data. And ofcourse Egypt is huge
on the agenda.
But may I please beg you to just
for today give us comments on the last part of the Bill namely the Code
of Conduct?
We have amended the programme and
we will focus our debate on this issue, and then leave tomorrow free for
people to raise concerns that they would probably like included in the
Bill.
And on our final day (Friday),
we will provide you with a summary of issues we have agreed on, and those
that need further debate.
And now to today’s debate:
The Code of Conduct and Practice
of Journalism covers all aspects for journalism from accuracy and fairness
to hate speech.
It has 25 articles some which may
need further debate for example article 2 on Independence where in (f)
that a journalist should refuse to allow the interests of ownership or
management to influence news’ judgment and content inappropriately, and
article16 on financial journalism.
Now, different media houses have
own codes of practice. This then leads us to our questions today.
1. Should the
MCK Code be made the minimum Code that each Media House should subscribe
to?
2. And if so,
in what way(s) would media houses be made to comply?
And finally, the Bill has no transition
clause. Could we have a suggestion on the text?
Please talk to us.
Have a good day.
Rgds
Grace
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