November 28, 2012

gmanews.tv reported that FOI bill moves without right of reply provision


Freedom of Information bill finally moves without right of reply provision

The Freedom of Information (FOI) bill is no longer languishing. The House committee on public information approved on Tuesday the FOI bill but without the controversial "right of reply" provision which many media leaders had been dreading. The FOI bill seeks to mandate public access to information about government transactions. Some lawmakers had been pushing the "right to reply" as part of the bill, which would legally require media to give the subjects of journalistic reporting equal space or airtime to reply. Critics say that it would infringe on press freedom by enabling government to decide how media space and airtime are used.

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