Recently, I’ve been experiment with the (automated) analysis of parliamentary speeches using Wordfish and Wordscores. I’ve been analysing Italian parliamentary speeches, and downloaded the XML records of plenary sessions in the Camera dei Deputati (go structured data!).
One of the things I learned from parsing the data was that only about five hundred of the six [...]
Now that Sergio Zavoli has finally been appointed President of the parliamentary committee which supervises Rai, the committee has been able to get to work. The committee’s most important task is appointing seven of the nine members of the board of Rai, which it has now done. The seven names, with their presumed party affiliations [...]
“Diminuire le notizie sul cattivo tempo”
[Cut down on the bad weather stories]
Instruction sent from the Minculpop to Italian newspapers, 1st June 1939. Found on the jacket cover of Nicola Tranfaglia’s La Stampa Del Regime.