[Media Caucus] Media paragraph in CS benchmarks

[Victor van Oeyen]

Thanks Steve for your attention. I support your points and hope to receive
some comments of those who were there... 

Victor 

At 21:04 17-11-2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear all
>
>Sorry to have missed the last two days in Geneva. Some great outputs from 
>civil society, but...
>
>Please could someone explain how the proposal that state controlled media 
>should be privatised, found its way into a civil society statement of 
>"non-negotiables". This has never been a position of the media caucus.
>
>The form of words also weakens the media caucus commitment to media 
>pluralism. The form of words agreed at Prepcom 3 was "pluralism and 
>diversity of media ownership should be guaranteed through appropriate laws 
>to hinder the abuse of media ownership concentration". The new texts only 
>suggest "efforts... must be encouraged to avoid excessive media
concentration"
>
>Who submitted this proposal and with what authority? It sounds like a 
>statement from the private sector. Was it sent to the media caucus list for 
>comments, or to the civil society content and themes list?
>
>See below.
>
>Steve
>
>
>9.2     Media
>While allowing for government information services to communicate their 
>message, state-controlled media at the national level should be transformed 
>into editorially independent public service media organisations and/or 
>privatised. Efforts which encourage pluralism and diversity of media 
>ownership must be encouraged to avoid excessive media concentration
>
>Full text (Civil society benchmarks) www.geneva2003.org
>
>
>
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