The BBC is the BBC and the BBC does not adhere to this standard either! – the requirement [to broadcasters] to maintain balance is wrong! It is impossible to express all opinions, all positions more or less correctly! We are entering into excessive regulation, which is not the state’s business and in very many cases is impossible! We are clinging to some chimeras, which in practice may be difficult to implement, if not impossible! –Vice-Speaker of the People’s Power, Sozar Subari, said regarding the planned amendments to the Law on Broadcasting, which he expressed during the second reading of the draft law at the plenary session of the Parliament.

As Subari stated in this context, the law should ensure that the media does not spread lies and does not slander people.

According to him, it would be wrong to impose a number of obligations on broadcasters by law.

“The fact that the presented numbers come from self-regulation cannot be an excuse! We must judge what is right and what is wrong!

When we say impartiality, impartiality is good, but there is no impartial media in the world. You should not lie and you should not slander a person - this is the main thing! Any media is biased. It has an owner and has its own position. It is another thing to demand a different standard from the public broadcaster. Sometimes impartiality is nonsense!

Sometimes it is impossible to maintain balance. For example, yesterday, several television stations - Imedi and Post TV were not allowed to attend the meeting with Landsberg - how can you maintain balance?! This is simply impossible. It is not right to impose this!

An authorial program means that a person has his own position, expresses this position and tries to establish the opinion expressed by him. It is impossible for him to include all the relevant alternative views in the authorial program.

The same applies to the point according to which, if not all groups are represented on television, it cannot be used as a means of attacking those groups that do not participate in the program. For example, a person has come to conditionally criticize our political power or, say, we have come to criticize another. I think it is impossible and wrong to prohibit this and regulate it at the level of law.

The BBC is the BBC! The BBC does not adhere to this standard either, for example, incorrect information has been released regarding Georgia many times, but information is one thing and maintaining balance is another! - There is no such television in the world,” Sozar Subari said at the plenary session of the Parliament.