The recently tabled Broadcasting Bill has not yet spent a week in the public view and it has already garnered strong criticism.“This Bill is even more dangerous than what we have now …” said Christopher Ram at a press conference called to examine the impact that the decision of CN Sharma,Jerseys From China, owner of Channel Six made to pull the television programme “Keeping Them Honest” from his regular programming.Here the owner of the station admitted that he took the decision after a “discussion with the relevant authorities” but under the new legislation there is clause after clause dictating conditions, breach of which could lead to the withdrawal of an entity’s broadcasting license.Ram and Ramon Gaskin issued a joint statement at the press conference yesterday in which it was said that “This arrogant and lawless group of rulers which has always sought to control everything in Guyana has long wanted to extend its tentacles to the private media and media practitioners who are not sympathetic to the ruling party.Their armoury includes threats, pressure, intimidation and the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB) whose servility is now being entrenched in the Broadcasting Bill # 13 of 2011.Under this Bill, the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority holds dominion over the entire broadcasting spectrum. And that Authority is governed by its board that shall comprise of no less than four and no more than seven members,Cheap World Cup Jerseys 2018, one of whom is to be Chairman.The Bill states that the President shall appoint the Chairman and all members of the board while the opposition parties may only nominate a single member who may or may not be appointed.This was one of the issues to which Christopher Ram was referring yesterday afternoon when he stated that the Bill was even more dangerous than the current arrangement which sees the Advisory Committee on Broadcasting (ACB),Cheap MLS Jerseys, advising the President on matters relating to the broadcasting media. This bill he claims would give de facto control of the media to the Government in both private and public broadcasting media.There are several clauses under Part Three, Clause 32 of the Bill which outlines the guidelines that have to be met by licensees to ensure that they are not penalized under the Bill.These include “fair and balanced” programme content with accuracy that is founded on “a commitment to check, cross-check and double check and wherever possible, to gather first hand information from credible documentation, or official spokespersons or fully attributable eye-witnessed sources.”Stabroek News in an editorial published yesterday contained commentary on this particular clause which states, “While all broadcast houses would aspire to the foregoing,Wholesale China Jerseys, the reality is quite different and results in something very often less than this much vaunted ideal.”That clause of the Bill goes on to examine other considerations in the next few sub clauses. These include requirements for programmes dealing with “controversial public policy or matters of political or industrial controversy”,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, “the reporting of news” in matters of “controversy” as well as the privacy of individuals, a clause which makes special provisions for the children of public officials.Ram also highlighted the fact that the Bill “creates a separate space for the state media”. He was at the time referring to Clause 19, Sub-clause (c) of the Bill which states that “It is hereby declared as the broadcasting policy for Guyana that –”,cheap jerseys nfl wholesale,”while recognizing the special role of state-owned media, the broadcast industry is plural and open to fair competition.”As one executive member of the Guyana Press Association put it, this clause is simply a repeat of the Orwellian Animal Farm edict that stated “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”