[WSIS-CT] Re: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Geneva based Press

[Steve Buckley]

Jean-Louis and all

As far as I have now been able to ascertain, the words calling for 
privatisation  were provided in an individual capacity by Rony Koven for 
the benchmarks document. They don't reflect the position of the media 
caucus or the community media group. Certainly this is not a civil society 
non-negotiable.

But lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater. The benchmarks 
documents reflects some very good work and intensive effort. It would make 
some people too happy to drop it because of some small (though significant) 
inconsistencies.

There is a discussion on this in the media caucus. For now I think it is 
fair to assume the media paragraph in the benchmarks has large square brackets.

Best wishes

Steve


At 22:07 18/11/03 +0100, Fullsack Jean-Louis wrote:
>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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