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Okrent’s law

From the Wikipedia entry on Daniel Okrent:
He is known for coining “Okrent’s Law” during his tenure as a comment he made about his new job. It states: “The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true,” referring to the phenomenon of the press providing legitimacy to fringe or minority viewpoints.

Posted 24 February 2008 † Chris § daniel okrent § impartiality § bias ‡ Comments (0)

Political balance = balance of politicians?

The centre-right is annoyed with Rai thanks to two programmes: Fabio Fazio’s hosting of Finance Minister Padoa-Schioppa on Che Tempo Che Fa, and Lucia Annunziata’s hosting of Enrico Deaglio on Ballaro. Padoa-Schioppa took time to explain the left’s budget; Deaglio, a journalist, argued that the centre-right was ready to stuff the ballot boxes in last […]

Posted 21 November 2006 † Chris § pluralism § annunziata § bias § rai ‡ Comments (0)

Distribution of screen-time on Today

I’m just back from the PSA Media and Politics Group conference in Sunderland, where I presented a paper on the screen time given over to Italian politicians. Whilst there, I found out that Guy Starkey has compiled similar data [Powerpoint] on the screen-time given over to different parties on the BBC’s Today programme […]

Posted 20 November 2006 † Chris § Today programme § bias § monitoring § BBC ‡ Comments (0)