The EU Ponders Crackdown on Journalism

by Bruce Bawer
Frontpage Magazine
January 28, 2013

https://www.legal-project.org/3840/the-eu-ponders-crackdown-on-journalism

Excerpt:

President Reagan famously said that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are these: "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." In 2013, the European equivalent of this statement is: "I'm from Brussels and I'm going to enhance your freedom." Surely "terrifying" is the mot juste for a new report, A Free and Pluralistic Media to Sustain European Democracy, produced by the EU's High Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, or HLG for short. The HLG, which consists of four people – Professor Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, a former President of Latvia; Professor Herta Däubler-Gmelin, a former German Minister of Justice; Ben Hammersley, a British journalist; and Professor Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro, a Portuguese jurist – was established in October 2011 by European Commission Vice-President Neelie Kroes, a Dutch politician, who asked it "to provide a set of recommendations for the respect, the protection, the support and the promotion of pluralism and freedom of the media in Europe."

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