And they’re off! Proposals on electoral reform for the 2009 European Parliament elections sent to the Constitutional Affairs Commission! The Bocchino-Calderisi draft seems to be the notionally-independent proposal that the government will put its weight behind: a 5% threshold and fifteen electoral districts with average magnitude of 4.8. All very exciting.
With a blog-post title in the best Tyler Cowen style, a sentence from this article on McCain’s media bias claim:
Much of the coverage has a simple explanation: the press is biased — towards the most commercial narrative
To the Festa Democratica this evening to hear Giovanna Melandri [Partito Democratico], Claudio Petruccioli [Rai], Tom Mockridge [Sky Italia], Gina Nieri [Mediaset] and Giovanni Stella [La7] talk about the television of the future.
Petruccioli had two suggestions for Rai, but refused to go any further, pointedly noting that he’s already gone over his term as [...]
Figures in brackets are 2007 market share, taken from Agcom’s 2008 report:
Gruppo Editoriale l’Espresso: owns Repubblica, wide holdings in localnewspaper market; the Espresso [weekly]; radio holdings and (minor) TV holdings (26.9%)
RCS Mediagroup: owns the Corriere della Sera and the Gazzetta dello Sport; specialist magazine holdings (26.8%)
Il Sole 24 Ore: eponymous newspaper and its associated offspring [...]