Walter Veltroni has recently been getting pissed off with Italia dei Valori (IdV), accusing it of being responsible and ruining any possibility of an alliance. Apparently, his voters don’t see it that way. They most want an alliance with IdV, followed by an alliance with the Communists and Greens.
Unfortunately, there seems to have been no [...]
The control that Silvio Berlusconi has over Italian television is often described as an ‘anomaly’ (Boogerd-Quaak 2004, § 60, Haraszti 2005, p. 2, Blatmann 2003). Although this description is useful for directing our attention to the case, it is unhelpful when it comes to explaining the how, what, and why of Berlusconi’s control.
And whilst Berlusconi’s [...]
A backbench Tory MP has dropped his attempt to scrap the TV licence as it had little chance of becoming law. [BBC News Online]
Communications watchdog Agcom says that information on television is unbalanced in favour of the government and the parties that compose it. Yawn.
In my work on broadcasters, I am often critical of lottizzazione. Today, I read a paragraph which made me realise I come from an institute which practices it. Philip Schlesinger, writing in a 1991 book on Culture, Identity & Broadcasting in Ireland (p. 43):
[On] the question of identity in Europe… my interest was first seriously [...]