3 Amendments of Marie-Christine BOUTONNET related to 2017/2209(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with regret that insufficient attention has been paid to the concentration of media ownership in Member States; recalls that EU competition rules play an important role inpoints out the need to preventing the creation or abuse of dominant positions in the media; calls therefore on the EU Member States and local authorities to monitor media concentration and to provide easily accessible information on media ownership and economic influence over media, to keep the public fully informed about media ownership and media dependence, and to take measures to reduce that concentration;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that whistle-blowers are a crucial resource for democracy and for investigative journalism and an independent press; calls on the Commission; calls on the EU Member States, therefore, to provide EU-wide protection in accordance with the Union objectives of democracy, pluralism of opinion and freedom of expressguarantee their protection;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights that the fight against ‘fake news’, namely false news and other disinformation that is spread deliberately via the media, should not result in restricting freedom of internet usage; calls for the Member States and EU institutions to devote sufficient resources to tackling disinformation; is satisfied with the work of the East StratCom Task Force and the establishment of the High Level Expert Group on fake news and online disinformationresist the temptation to use this fight to restrict that freedom.