Amendment No. 2 | Doc. 14228 | 24 January 2017

Online media and journalism: challenges and accountability

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin - 2017 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, after paragraph 3, insert the following paragraph:

"As constantly stressed by the European Court of Human Rights in its case law, the press plays a vital role in a democratic society in imparting information on matters of public interest. It acts as a "public watchdog", allowing members of the public to discover and form opinions about the attitudes and actions of political figures."