Spauda Lietuvoje: Skirtumas tarp puslapio versijų

'''15. (U) Several media outlets, especially the weekly Ekstra, a supplement to the national daily Lietuvos Rytas, regularly attack Juozapavicius and TI. Stories have insinuated that TI board members are linked with the mafia. Ekstra also alleged in one story that Juozapavicius tried to bribe a journalist by offering a laptop computer in exchange for advertising a certain company on television.'''

16. (C) TI has worked with the Journalists and Publishers Ethics Commission, the Inspector of Journalists Ethics, and the Lithuanian Journalists Union to draft legislation that they hope the Government will bring to the Parliament in fall 2007. Currently, most media pay a Value Added Tax charge of five percent, far less than the 18 percent other businesses pay for most items. The draft legislation proposes that media sources that the Journalist and Publishers Ethics Commission finds in violation of the Journalists Code of Ethics would lose this privilege and be charged the 18 percent VAT. The 18 percent VAT would also apply to pornographic, violent, or majority advertising (80 percent or more of the publication is ads) media. Juozapavicius, however, fears the bill is unlikely to pass and that MPs who support it would face pressure from the media lobby as well as attacks in the mass media.