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.
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 […]
From the comments in this Le Monde article it seems that Sarkozy has actually thought about this, and wasn’t speaking in impromptu fashion.
This suggestion goes against the trend of moving such appointments away from the executive. Reaction is somewhere between hostile and incensed.
The argument in favour of presidential nomination is that too often the current […]
BBC told to, um, reflect the country more. The bad news is, the report found that Scots were dissatisfied with the BBC’s news and current affairs. The good news? They were just as dissatisfied in the eighties, but no-one within the BBC was publishing reports on it.
Television licence fee to be index-linked to inflation in […]
Sarko accepts licence fee increases for France Télévisions after having been against it; PPDA leaves the eight o’clock bulletin.
The left-wing parties have now officially withdrawn their representatives from the Copé commission, arguing that the Commission’s recommendations are either going to be laid down by the Elysée or ignored.
For a reform that seemed to have been drawn up on the hoof by Sarkozy, there’s quite a lot of intransigence going around.
From Le Monde:
Dans une lettre adressée, lundi 24 septembre, à Michel Boyon, président du Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA), François Hollande, premier secrétaire du Parti socialiste, et Didier Mathus, député (PS) de Saône-et-Loire et spécialiste des questions de médias, estiment que “l’expression des grands courants politiques dans les médias est gravement déséquilibrée par les interventions […]
CBC journalist runs for parliament.
France Télévisions asks for more money.
Rome court to decide tomorrow on the Petroni case.
From Le Monde:
Un nouveau rédacteur en chef pour le “20 heures” et une réorganisation de la rédaction avec l’apparition de nouveaux “pôles” : telles sont les principales mesures prises en cette rentrée par Arlette Chabot, directrice de l’information de France 2. Il s’agit de tenter de sortir de la crise qui, depuis plusieurs mois, pèse […]
Quick link to this thoughtful piece on the possibility and desirability of an independent media in Sarkozy’s France - thoughtful primarily for recognising that the desirable level of media independence is not always the maximum level.
