Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-26-Speech-2-107"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-09-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Explanations of vote2
dcterms:Language	"cs"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060926.20.2-107"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-09-26-Speech-2-1082
lpv:speaker	lp:Daniel Strož2
lpv:spokenAs	member; JURI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; CULT (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3 unknown; Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3
lpv:translated text	". I should like to comment on the Mavrommatis report, on which we voted without holding a debate beforehand. Although it offers a series of indisputably interesting ideas and conclusions, the report contains a great deal of empty, superfluous waffle that not only fails to reflect what is actually happening in EU Member States but also fails to contribute towards solving the problems that the Union should be addressing in this area. I should also like to highlight the fact that in some Member States there are no media that one might remotely call independent or professional. The media in those countries are categorically not a ‘vital and fundamental process for human development’, to quote the words of the report. In the Czech Republic, for example, the media are merely components of the market and clearly an instrument of political manipulation used to misinform the public. It is no secret that the key media in the Czech Republic belong to foreign concerns and that the regional press belongs to a German publishing company. One characteristic feature of this state of affairs is the marginalisation of, in the main, left-wing opinions, the treatment of whole sections of the population as criminals and pariahs, and the downgrading of the role of journalists to that of mere hired hands, who are forced unquestioningly to respect and defend the editor’s political platform. There are no restrictions applying to editors in respect of the concentration of media power. The empty lip–service that is paid to ethics and humanity is clearly deeply naive and tantamount to turning a blind eye to the real problems facing the media sector in the EU."@en1

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