Dear All, The Parliamentary Select Committee invited stakeholders to Msa to discuss the Media Bill 2007. In brief, the name of the Bill was changed it will now be referred to as the Media Council of Kenya Bill. The powers given to the minister to appoint the chairman of the council has been removed. The govt will not have the power to regulate the media, this will be left to the media council. The creation of the Media Advisory body has been deleted from the new bill. The organization to nominate members of the council have been reduced from 14 to 9. This Bill allows Media to Self Regulate, the earlier Bill allowed the govt to regulate the media. Govt will fund the media council. We hope that parliament doesn't reverse the above. Cheers. Kanja --- Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru@yahoo.com> wrote:

I just heard it on Nation radio. Waruru and Dr. Ndemo enlighten us on the deal reached. I sure hope the clause on registering journalists was struck off.

I stand my ground in support of "Registering journalists is a code word for censorship", because we cannot trust future regimes to be as democratic as the current. Genuine risk of use to suppress "non-journalists" opinions (like me, sometimes).

http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?premiumid=0&category_id=25&newsid=99397

Gakuru

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