[Media Caucus] Media paragraph in CS benchmarks

[DeeDee Halleck]

YES THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
DeeDee Halleck

John Barker wrote:

>I agree with Steve's assesment. A19 could not support the privatisation
>position andwould be more specific concerning anti-monopoly measures.
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>How can we move on this, tracey is busy on other things at the moment but
>suggestwe develop a new form of wording agree on the list and submit to CS group.
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>John B
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>>Dear all
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>>Sorry to have missed the last two days in Geneva. Some great outputs
>>from  civil society, but...
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>>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.
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>>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"
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>>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?
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>>See below.
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>>Steve
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>>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
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>>Full text (Civil society benchmarks) www.geneva2003.org
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