Mexico City.-A Press Self-Regulation Committee was proposed by Morena Senator María Soledad Luévano Cantú, through an initiative presented in the Senate, which would be responsible for monitoring information of the various institutions of the Mexican State. It emphasizes that important journalistic notes and investigations have precise content and attached to reality. The legislator proposes that this committee will not have the power to censor texts, but whether it should issue a public pronouncement on the subject which seeks to give greater clarity.
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According to the information disseminated by the Tampico Sun, it states that the initiative provides in Article 45 that “Where relevant inconsistencies are detected in the information from the Mexican State or some means of communication, such information may not be censored but the self-regulatory committee must issue a public pronouncement alerting to the inconsistencies, falsehoods or ambiguities presented by the information”. It is necessary for the senator that this Committee on Self-Regulation of the Press must be an autonomous body, which must have its own budget and personality. The internal structure shall consist of one president and five secretaries who shall serve for a period of three years.
The press self-regulation initiative was presented. | Pixabay
The profiles to hold these positions may be of directors of higher-level schools with official accreditation, who among their careers offer bachelor’s degrees in journalism, communication or related, media representatives and journalists, who could be chosen by free and secret voting and through a process organized by the National Electoral Institute (INE). It is also mentioned in the functions to be performed by this Committee and maintain a National Register of Media and Journalists. Among the powers would be that it will order the Inegi to draw up two surveys, that a national would be the impact of the media and credibility, according to the record of media and communicators. Other functions such as spending and official advertising procurement rules stand out and highlight that only 0.3% of the total revenue from tax collection for the previous tax year can be spent on government advertising.
Article 15 also mentions: “Recruitment limits by means of communication shall be established on the basis of the impact of the media and on the quality of its journalistic work, for this purpose, 70 per cent of the calculation will depend on the points that these media obtain in the national media survey and the remaining 30 per cent will depend on the outcome of the national media credibility survey”.
The initiative seeks the obligation to establish press conferences in the three powers of government, which as requested by the Brownist Senator: the Federal Executive must hold one a week and with the officials he considers; Board of Directors in each of the Chambers once a month and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), one every three months. In states, the governor must hold a minimum conference every 15 days and if there are 200 thousand inhabitants in those municipalities it will be monthly. He talks about the dynamics of each of the press conferences that there must be an exhibitor and the round of 30 questions.
