[Via Boing-Boing] The Canadian House of Commons asked YouTube to take down a parody video of Robert Rabinovitch’s testimony to the House. Questions:
why can’t Canadian citizens get the rights to the video of their own representatives?
what on earth did Rabinovitch say that might have been worth parodying?
[Update: the answer to the second question is: nothing.]
Establishment of public broadcasters by charters has its upsides and its downsides.
Upsides: it maintains the independence of the broadcaster.
Downsides: I have to read through Sweden’s 1996 Television and Radio Law, the 2007 Licence Agreement, and the Supplement to the Licence Agreement, before finding that none of them contain anything on the governance of SVT.
Thankfully, this [...]
No sooner do I complete my June paper (a 15,000 word research design for the thesis), than I find a new data point on perceptions of political independence by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
The first poll is by Ipsos-Reid, and asks
Thinking specifically about the CBC…which of the following two statements is closer to your [...]
I’ve been hunting for an English language description of the governance of the Greek PSB for a while now. I’ve found part of it:
The government introduced the broadcasting Law 230/1975 which abolished EIRT and, in its place, created Hellenic Radio and Television (ERT). ERT was a limited company whose only shareholder was the Greek [...]
These are, in large part, publicly available. God bless George Soros-funded organisations…
Gaube, Ales, “Slovenia: a Government Mouthpiece?”, Transitions Online, 26th September 2005; deals with a reform of RTV Slovenia following a 2005 referendum; the referendum substitute a German-style corporatist board for a parliamentary appointed board.
Gaubes, Ales, “Slovenian Media: the Politics of Ownership“, Transitions [...]
Most of the time, I look at public service broadcasters (PSBs) as exquisitely political creatures.
Most of the time, I think that’s the right perspective.
Recently, however, I’ve been looking at PSBs as corporations, with all the associated paraphernalia of corporate governance. The results have been interesting.
PSBs can be divided into two types: dual board, or single-board.
German [...]
On Saturday, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Finance Minister, writes to Rai saying that he no longer has confidence in Angelo Maria Petroni, the Finance Ministry’s representative on the Rai board. Petroni was nominated by Padoa-Schioppa’s right-wing predecessor. Petroni claims that the move is purely political, and has no legal foundation. Petroni is partly right: the move has [...]
“People have clear views about how their health should be provided for, the economy should be managed, and the environment be protected, but attitudes towards government intervention in the communications field appear fitful and unfocused. Perhaps it is more difficult for people to have well-formulated views on the organization and control of institutions and technologies [...]
When I speak to Italian friends about the differences between Rai and the BBC, I often say that there are simply not so many newspaper articles about the BBC as there are about Rai. When newspapers do publish things on the BBC, they try (usually) to select issues of genuine public interest and (usually) try [...]