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Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
The question of media accountability:
Recent calls have been made towards a more regulated press, following allegations of media privacy invasion and phone hacking, fake news, and even accusations of corporate interests and lobbyists manipulating headlines, public opinion and elections. How should European countries ensure the media is able to fulfil its regulatory purpose in comprehensively, accurately and objectively informing the general public?
Dear Delegates,
We, the chairing team of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, are proud to welcome you to the upcoming MEP National Session in Linz/Wels in January 2018.
As there are only a few weeks left until the start of the session, we would like to encourage you to familiarise yourself thoroughly with our committee issue.
The topic we will be dealing with is the question of media accountability: “Recent calls have been made towards a more regulated press, following allegations of media privacy invasion and phone hacking, fake news, and even accusations of corporate interests and lobbyists manipulating headlines, public opinion and elections. How should European countries ensure the media is able to fulfil its regulatory purpose in comprehensively, accurately and objectively informing the general public?”
Good preparation is the prerequisite for productive and determined committee work and therefore, we have compiled several links, pdfs and other pieces of information to help you doing so. Read through them carefully and also feel free to do additional research.
We are looking forward to meeting you and wish you all the best; please be in touch if you have any questions!
On behalf of your Committee Chairing team,
Markus Bencsits, Committee President (ma.ben@gmx.at)
Dominik Zhang (W), CoCP
Nicolas Rashish (W), CP Sec
Isabella Domenig (W), CP/SMO
Oscar Weihs (W), CIE
Preparation:
General information:
EU – Commission: Initiative on fake news and online disinformation:
“Next steps against fake news: Commission sets up High-Level Expert Group and launches public consultation” (take a look at the pdf!):
A European Parliament resolution of 15 June 2017 on online platforms and the digital single market, calling on the Commission to analyse in depth the current situation and legal framework and to verify the possibility of legislative intervention to limit the dissemination and spreading of fake news content:
- http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2017-0272+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
The project "Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe" is a comparative research effort on media accountability systems (MAS) in EU member states as indicators for media pluralism in Europe:
Of particular interest: Poland: Waiting for the Citizens to Demand Online Media Accountability:
Articles and press publications:
About: Media and accountability
Please focus on European countries:
"The need of journalism to restore trust":
Has truth perished? About "fake news" and a "post-truth” society:
Interesting Article about "fake news" and Donald Trump. European politics are of course of primary importance for the MEP, but the current US president has appreciably coined the discourse about the trustworthiness of the media ("Fake news", etc. ..):