“Anche questa sera e’ andata in onda una edizione del Tg1 sfacciatamente faziosa”. Lo afferma Giorgio Lainati, capogruppo di Forza Italia in commissione vigilanza Rai. [Repubblica]
I thought I’d post the music I wanted to put on at my shift in bar fiasco tomorrow night…
Name
Artist
Album
Year
Somebody Dance (Sven & Friends edit)
The Killers vs David Bowie
2006
Emotional Rescue
The Rolling Stones
Forty licks (Disc 2)
1980
Life o’ The Party
Prince
Musicology
Hey Ladies
The Beastie Boys
The Sounds Of Science (Disc 2)
1999
Concrete Schoolyard
Jurassic 5
Jurassic 5 – J5
1998
The Don of Dons
The Neptunes
The Neptunes [...]
This is London takes up this story about the BBC’s ‘impartiality summit’. The paper’s spin is that the summit was an admission that the BBC is ‘biased’. In particular, “the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism”.
If the minutes of the meeting are accurate, and [...]
Marco Follini, former secretary of the UDC, has decided to leave the party, founding his own group, l’Italia del mezzo.
This was not unexpected – Follini had left his post as party secretary a while ago, and had carped about his party’s policy and Berlusconi’s leadership of the centre-right. What is surprising, at least to me, [...]
In response to the previously announced government consultation exercise, RTÉ has responded to the government’s draft broadcasting bill with a fair amount of red ink. Politically relevant concerns are the following:
In order to fall under companies legislation, RTÉ is to be constituted as a single-shareholder company with one shareholder, a cabinet minister. RTÉ argues that [...]
As a sideline, I’ve been reading about trust in governing institutions. Does the political independence of broadcasters depend on whether politicians trust the broadcasters to report truthfully or accurately? If so, might existing low levels of trust prevent an improvement in the relationship?
Working through one wonderful article on LBJ’s psychology, I came across the [...]
Eva Hamilton, SVT’s Head of Fiction, was last Friday appointed Director General of the Swedish public broadcaster. With experience in SVT’s News department, she comes to SVT after having worked for Aftonbladet (”independent social democrat”) and Svenska Dagbladet (”independent, conservative”) [Source for these judgements: BBC Media monitoring].
Now that RTVE Director-General Carmen Caffarel is calling on politicians to name high-quality independent members of RTVE’s future Board, I thought it might be useful to see whether, in the past, Directors-General have frequently been tossed out by over-mighty boards. I finally found this list of previous Directors-General. Let’s have a look:
Fernando Castedo (Jan ‘81 [...]
Event:The Prodi government has agreed changes to Italy’s framework media law, reducing generous antri-trust limits set by the previous Berlusconi government.
Significance:Public broadcaster Rai and private corporation Mediaset – owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi – enjoy a de facto duopoly over Italian television. Each has three of seven national terrestrial channels, and their advertising [...]
Earlier this year, the CSA found it had a problem when considering UDF deputies who were dissenting from the government line. Did they count in the government’s share of screen-time according to the ‘rule of three thirds’? The ’sages’ have now resolved the difficulty, with the creation of a new category – neither government, nor [...]