Passed by the 12th Magsterium on 12/24/11
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The governments of the Modern Pacific Alliance which choose to approve this pact express their approval of and agree to comply with the terms dictated within its text.
MPA Press Pact: sponsored by Southern Bellz of The South Pacific.
The Modern Pacific Alliance hereby establishes the Modern Pacific Press (MPP), an organization established by the MPA and under the authority of the Pacific Press Editor in Chief.
The Editor in Chief is to be elected by the MPA Assembly, which will nominate candidates and decide by popular vote which willing candidate will assume the position.
It is the job of the Editor in Chief to write and/or compile news articles which should include information and/or material willingly supplied to the MPP by nations from MPA-involved regions.
The governments of MPA-involved nations which have ratified this pact will strongly encourage some of their members to join the efforts of the MPP to create interesting, informative, accurate news articles which will help keep the public informed of current and/or important events within the feeder/sinker regions.
The MPP Editor in Chief is at liberty to decide which pieces of information and/or which written material will enter MPP articles and will organize these articles in any fashion he or she chooses to. If the MPP Editor in Chief fails to release a new MPP news article after 60 consecutive days, the MPA Assembly is at liberty to replace him/her. The MPP Editor in Chief is required to alert the delegates of MPA-involved regions which have ratified this pact of newly published articles. The Editor in Chief must also publish the articles in the MPA forums and publish them in the forums of all MPA-involved regions which have ratified this pact. It is recommended that the MPA Editor in Chief also publish MPP news articles in the NationStates “Gameplay” forum.
The delegates of MPA-involved regions which have ratified this pact are to post links to MPP articles in their regions regional message boards soon after the articles are published. These delegates are also encouraged post pieces of the most recent MPP article in their regions RMB.
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