[WSIS CS-Plenary] Geneva based Press

[Fullsack Jean-Louis]

Hi Karen
I cannot support your statement to the journalist from IPSNews below.
Tell me : do private TVs demonstrate more "editorial independance" than
public ones ? Is Fox News more independant than the BBC ?
But above all, is privatization of public medias a  "non negociable" for CS
C&T group ? Who did endorse such a failure ?
There are many members of CS C&T group who won't support such a statement
which is contrary to our commitment to public service and public goods.
Therefore I join Steve Buckley's questions and protest.
Moreover, I ask the C&T group to review seriously this questionable document
entitled "Civil Society Essential Benchmarks for WSIS" as to reflect our
real and basic concerns. I'm willing to make proposals and contributions as
I already did before and during PrepCom-3a through different e-mails.
However, neither of the final CS documents (CS Statement and Essential
Benchmarks) bore the slightest trace of them.
Jean-Louis Fullsack
CSDPTT

----- Original Message -----
From: "karen banks" <karenb at gn.apc.org>
To: <plenary at wsis-cs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Geneva based Press


> hi
>
> another press piece..
>
> karen
>
> COMMUNICATION:
> A Steep Climb to the Information Society Summit
> Gustavo Capdevila
>
> GENEVA, Nov 14 (IPS) - Everyone wants to bridge the information and
> telecommunications divide -- governments, the private sector and civil
> society -- but with less than four weeks to go before the World Summit on
> the Information Society (WSIS), agreement on how to tackle the issue
> remains elusive....
> http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=21121
>
>
>
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