The French Disconnection (a.k.a. Vous n'??tes pas un YouTube journaliste)

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What are they afraid of?

The French have been pushing for an international convention on regulation of journalists for at least 20 years. The idea is that "responsible journalists" will get licenses and have "freedom of the Press," while the unlicensed ones will be subject to either additional regulation, fines, jail, etc.

Of course, that does leave those journalists a bit, shall we say, "cautious?" Especially with regard to reporting anything that might be hazardous to their licenses, no?

What they're afraid of is another Rodney King episode. They've had enough of that kind of "press freedom" even before video recording.

Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 03/06/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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