The International Press Institute has come out against Dr. Brown’s execrable Media Council Bill (aka the Media Suppression Act) saying
It is very unfortunate that Bermuda, with its geographical closeness to the United States and its cultural and political ties to the United Kingdom, has managed to draft a law that would be wholly unacceptable in both countries.
Media Councils should be freely chosen by the local media and they should be independent and self-regulating. They should not be enacted by law and contain an in-built bias to the state and create powers that, if applied, would deeply inhibit the media’s ability to act in the public interest.”
[We] would encourage the Bermudan government to withhold this bill from Parliament and to go back to holding a dialogue with the local media.
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