|
| |
62nd
General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 to October 3, 2006
Camino Real Hotel
Reports and Resolutions
|
DISCRIMINATION
IN GOVERNMENT ADVERTISING AND CORRUPTION
Resolution of the 62nd General Assembly
Mexico City, Mexico
September 29 – October 3, 2006
WHEREAS
various governments, government institutions, and state-owned companies in the
hemisphere use their advertising as a tool to reward or punish the media, disregarding
any technical or cost-efficiency criteria in the use of public funds
WHEREAS
similar criteria lacking any objective basis are sometimes used to extend loans
or other financial or administrative benefits
WHEREAS
the funds thus mismanaged belongs to the people
WHEREAS
these discriminatory practices are in many cases a governmental response to
complaints or reports of corruption
WHEREAS
Principle 6 of the Declaration of Chapultepec states that “the media and
journalists should neither be discriminated against nor favored because of what
they write or say”
WHEREAS
Principle 7 of the Declaration of Chapultepec states that “the granting
or withdrawal of government advertising may not be used to reward or punish
the media or individual journalists”
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
THE IAPA RESOLVES
to reiterate its condemnation and repudiation of any discriminatory use of government
advertising that lacks an objective basis, as well as other financial and administrative
measures that may be used as a tool to reward or punish the media and influence
their editorial decisions and reporting
to persistently denounce such practices as grave attacks on press freedom and
as acts of corruption, since public funds are inappropriately used to benefit
the private interests of those temporarily administering such funds
to condemn media outlets and journalists who benefit from these improper and
unlawful practices, and who go so far as to be complicit in such corrupt practices
to call on all governments in the hemisphere to eradicate these unlawful practices
and punish those responsible for such actions.
 questions
or comments? e-mail us
Copyright © 2003 Inter American Press Association.
All rights reserved.
. | |
|
