(1) From Scannell and Cardiff’s Social History of British Broadcasting (vol. I, p. 118):
“An austere conception of news values continued to govern the selection of material for broadcasting. When news of the quality required was lacking no efforts were made to pad out the bulletins to a standard length. On Good Friday 1930, in the […]
Just the English language stuff for the moment…
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Avilés, J.A.G., B. León, K. Sanders and J. Harrison. Journalists at digital television newsrooms in Britain and Spain: workflow and multi-skilling in a competitive environment. Journalism Studies, 5(1):87–100, 2004.
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Graham, H. and J. Labanyi. Spanish cultural studies. Oxford University Press.
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Gunther, R., J.R. Montero and J.I. Wert. Democracy […]
Welcome decision from the Sarkozy government, which clarifies that any reforms to the governance of France Télévisions will not curtail the term in office of group president Patrick de Carolis.
Interesting suggestions for reform of the electoral system used for the European Parliament elections found here at RENA:
twenty-one electoral districts, with
at least one seat per district, with
remaining (57?) seats distributed in proportion to population, thus
increasing the effective threshold, if not the legal threshold;
and introducing a quota for female representation
We’ve seen before that Italian politicians don’t know much about the electoral systems of other countries. Now we see that they don’t know much about federalism in other countries either. According to Umberto Bossi,
“Senza il federalismo fiscale, c’e’ il rischio reale che il Paese diventi come l’Argentina…”
“Without fiscal federalism, there’s a real risk that […]
Once upon a time, there were party newspapers: funded by the parties, staffed by the parties, sold to party sympathizers. Or, there were partisan rags, which even if they didn’t have a party connection, seemed as if they did.
According to a number of (predominantly-American) social scientists, partynewspapers declined as the capital costs of launching a […]
Repubblica gives some excellent reportage/hearsay which shows three things:
generally, preference voting is supported by parties with better grassroots organisation;
generally, preference voting is supported by non-leadership groups within parties;
specifically, in the Italian case, preference voting is supported by the non-Veltroni factions in the PD, and the AN within the PdL.
Of course the BBC won’t reveal details of its lobbying operations following a FOIA request. It’s a very buttoned-up organisation when it comes to dealing with government. More surprising is that they’re contracting out at all when, as Adrian Monck notes, they have their own public affairs department.
Poll shows that 71% of respondents are opposed to presidential nomination of the head of France Télévisions. 11% have no opinion; 18% agree with Sarkozy that it is “logical” that the state should name the head of a corporation it owns.
Unfortunately Le Parisien does not provide the text of the questions asked; Le Monde is […]
Au delà des critiques sur la réforme en soi, c’est une réplique de M. Carolis – “lorsqu’on dit qu’il n’y a pas de différence entre la télévision de service public et les télévisions privées, je trouve cela faux, je trouve cela stupide, et je trouve cela profondément injuste” – qui a provoqué la fureur et […]
