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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-21"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human rights in 2003 and EU policy2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040421.12.3-318"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-21-Speech-3-3192
lpv:speaker	lp:Reino Paasilinna2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Suomen Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue/Finlands Socialdemokratiska Parti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I would like to say thank you for an excellent report. A free, independent and diverse mass media is a fundamental right. That is even more important in the information society, in which information is the major factor in production. It is good to remind ourselves of the situation in China, but we have problems right here amongst ourselves. Information is a major industry that guides governments and nations. It helps to fill the human consciousness, which could not contain anything more important. The uncontrolled political influence that the big proprietors of the media have is something that is familiar to us all. Italy now has nothing less than a system of perpetual motion: a huge economic power has bought the power of the media, which in turn legitimises political power. There is also a new danger here. Big companies in France are buying up the media to protect themselves, with the result that they are outside the scope of criticism. Why do we not intervene in this, the way we do with regard to human rights violations? This after all is a violation of the right to access to information, which is a fundamental right in the human information society."@en1

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