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IFJ 30 April 2021
IFJ at World Press Freedom Day in Namibia
Information as a public good is the subject of World Press Freedom Day, held in Windhoek, Namibia, 30 years after the Windhoek Declaration (3 May 1991). It remains a seminal event for the development of a free, independent and pluralistic press. World Press Freedom Day has its origins in the UNESCO conference in Windhoek. Below you will find the programme with the participation of the IFJ and its regions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Regional Forums
The global conference is connecting with the regional World Press Freedom Day celebrations, building upon the historic series of regional seminars triggered by the 1991 Seminar in Windhoek, which inspired regional declarations to promote a free, independent, and pluralistic press, in meetings held in Alma-Ata (1992), Santiago (1994), Sana’a (1996), and Sofia (1997).
The real issue is fair competition… not ‘unfair propaganda’
This is not a matter of constitutional rights. it is the Competition And Consumer Affairs Authority where the case on political party ownership of television stations should be fought
Raphael Vassallo
21 January 2021, 7:04am
Right: I thought I’d point that out from the start, because – with very few exceptions – most of the people commenting about Lovin Malta’s court case against Net and One TV seem to have missed the point of the entire exercise.
And that, it seems, also goes for Lovin’ Malta’s rationale in opening this case to begin with. On its online news portal, for instance, LM listed no fewer than 15 arguments against a law which permits both Nationalist and Labour parties to own their own TV and radio stations.
In the notice, lawyers Matthew Cutajar and Eve Borg Costanzi argue that the Broadcasting Act allows the two politically-owned stations to be biased in presenting facts as long as they balance each other out. This, they say, goes against the constitution, the supreme law of the land, which says broadcast media should be impartial in presenting facts.
Bankrupt media companies totally dependent on big business donations to stay afloat
The lawyers said the application to strike out this section of the law, a proviso of Article 13, was the first step in what could be a long legal battle to eventually see party-owned stations shut down for good.
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