David Cullinane, Sinn Féin spokesperson on Communications, Climate Action and the Environment and his proposed bill (top) to amend the 2009 Broadcasting Act to allow freedom of movement particularly in relation to Denis O’Brien-owned stations
This morning.
Further to ongoing Denis “O’Brien-related censorship shenanigans at his Communicorp stable, home of Newstalk and Today FM….
Sinn Féin TD David Cullinane tweetz::
I will move a Bill in the coming weeks to make it an offence to prohibit members of the NUJ from communications media.
The banning of certain journalists from Communicorp IRL is wrong and should not be tolerated. #FreePress…
Previously: ‘I Believe In A Free Press”
If only someone big at Communicorp could stand up to him?
Only kidding.
Go amendment!
Broadcasting Act 2009 here
does that mean that gemma gets back on youtube?
YouTube is not covered under Part 6 of the Broadcasting Act, as far as I can tell. Part 6 refers to “Broadcasting Contracts and Content Provision Contracts — Commercial and Community Broadcasters”
Secondly, I don’t think G*mm* was banned from YouTube for reasons of “occupation, employer, company, or employment status” – except maybe the company she keeps, wha?
good answer,
I think Max was trying to stir the poo,
Not a fan of [redacted] but this is a state attempt to control a privately owned media organisation.
Who knew SF were actual fascists?
I think this bill is a bit of kite-flying and would be effectively unenforceable, but the state can add all sorts of conditions when granting/renewing a broadcastin licence (% of public service broadcasting, % of output as Gaeilge, etc).
Cullinane drawing from the well-thumbed Simon Harris Doing-something-just-to-be-seen-to-be-doing-something playbook
“It’s not that X is banned, we just don’t invite them on any of our shows. Our presenters, producers and editors are free to line up whatever guests they think appropriate
if they no longer care about job security”Complete waste ot time.
He needs to re word it and possibly look at other legislation that covers the right
to free speech and expressions of opinion
All this freedom of the Press and defend our journalistic integrity blah blah blah. These loop the loops who call themselves “journalists” wouldn’t string a sentence together with alphabet soup!
Where was their integrity when they were destroying Maurice Mc Cabe????
STFU and sit down clowns. Most journalists in this country are the bottom of the IQ barrel and the sooner their jobs are taken over by bots the better