Nine Lies About New Media Law
1. K is a law: The new law is a claim of communication specialists since 1982, the return to democracy. The current bill was agreed in forums across the country in which participated Ong 's, union organizations, cultural organizations, communities of indigenous people, students and teachers from universities national as well as also small and medium entrepreneurs communication industry.
2. It's a gag law: The new law places restrictions on freedom of expression and censorship are not enabled. The previous law enacted by the military censorship allowed for the contents to establish a threat to the homeland (a very broad concept.)
3. The Act change just after the December 10, when lawmakers take the new : Impossible. The legislative policy indicates that no law can be reviewed again by Congress until a year after fishing.
4. The law was approved unchanged: changes were made to the law in the House of Representatives (but not in Senate). Basically, he removed the item that allowed that might form a phone package telephone-cable-TV (Triple Play), one of the most critical points had received.
5. All media will be controlled by Kirchner : the law stipulates that 33% of the licenses will be for commercial entities, another 33% for the state (national or provincial), and the remaining 33% for non-profit associations profit.
6 .- This Act gives more power to Kirchner on the media: With the current Comfer was operated by a civilian authority directly executive power (because the original law states that it must be supervised by three commanders of the FF . AA), the Kirchner could do whatever they want without difficulty. The new law sets A monitoring committee with government forces and opposition as well.
7 .- review licenses every two years: only to adapt the technology to changes in the way of analog to digital. This implies that can not be removed licenses every two years as critics like to suggest the article.
8 .- The media law is not important, there are more urgent things: media law is important and can be considered very urgent, because, as explained in point 6, the rules allowed regia censorship.
9 .- The law will make many people use because they are closed channels as TN : The current law encourages the creation of more resources, so the work is multiplied. Channels like TN (ie within a corporate group channel-Clarin, who owns a cable operator - Multichannel - Cablevision -) should converted into local signals. That will encourage the emergence of more local channels to work for the people of the provinces and regional news.
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