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
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.
Washington Post has an article on Fred Thompson’s candidacy for the Republica nomination. Apparently, if Thompson enters the race officially, summer viewers don’t get their repeats of Law & Order (Thompson plays a District Attorney), due to equal time regulations on free television time to candidates.
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 […]
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 […]
“Anche questa sera e’ andata in onda una edizione del Tg1 sfacciatamente faziosa”. Lo afferma Giorgio Lainati, capogruppo di Forza Italia in commissione vigilanza Rai. [Repubblica]
This is London takes up this story about the BBC’s ‘impartiality summit’. The paper’s spin is that the summit was an admission that the BBC is ‘biased’. In particular, “the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism”.
If the minutes of the meeting are accurate, and […]
Luttazzi: non mi vuole neanche la Rai di sinistra - La Stampa Web: Daniele Luttazzi, persona non grata at Rai ever since Silvio Berlusconi’s ‘editto bulgaro’, has this to say about the politics of satire:
“The satirist must be interested in who is in power: who is there is there. The right argues that the satirists […]
RaiNews24 reports that four left-wing politicians (Giorgio Merlo, Margherita; Gennaro Migliore, RC; Loredana de Petris, Verdi; Esterino Montino, DS) have complained to Rai about the broadcast of the ‘Prodi rap’ during a news bulletin. The centre-right, in the shape of Altero Matteoli, accuses the left of stamping out ‘liberty of expression’, which presumably Rai enjoys.
At […]
The media observatory in Pavia regularly collects info on politicians’ time on screen on all Rai channels. Recently, it seems that certain on the right have been complaining about an absence of Berlusconi from Rai’s screens. Mauro Mazza, director of Tg2 - not, I would have thought, a committed centre-left supporter - says some pretty […]
