Sean Eikhoff, The Sentinel, Kennesaw State University; OPINION: The Ethics in Journalism Act is designed to censor journalists
"The Ethics in Journalism Act currently in the Georgia House of
Representatives is a thinly veiled attempt to censor journalists. A
government-created committee with the power to unilaterally suspend or
probate journalists is a dangerous concept and was exactly the sort of
institution the framers sought to avoid when establishing freedom of the
press.
The bill, HB 734, is sponsored by six Republicans
and would create a Journalism Ethics Board with nine members appointed
by Steve Wrigley, the chancellor of the University of Georgia. This
board would be tasked to create a process by which journalists “may be
investigated and sanctioned for violating such canons of ethics for
journalists to include, but not be limited to, loss or suspension of
accreditation, probation, public reprimand and private reprimand.”
The bill is an attempt to violate journalists’ first amendment rights
and leave the chance of government punishing journalists for reporting
the truth."
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