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.
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 […]
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 […]
Outsider eyed as new leader of NHK. [Hollywood Reporter]
New director for France 2. [Hollywood Reporter] [Le Monde]
Trade press reports that any licence fee increase will be “marginal”:
Depuis des semaines, le président de France Télévisions Patrick de Carolis réclame des moyens supplémentaires, pour poursuivre l’évolution technologique du groupe (passage au numérique notamment) et son effort dans la création. Pour augmenter les ressources du groupe, deux options sont envisagées: hausse de la redevance […]
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 […]
Even better data from this 2003 CSA / Marianne poll on l’image des journalistes: 23% of French people think the media are independent of “political power”, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, Jean-Pierre Pernaud, and Claire Chazal are cited as particularly independent. Cross-tabs are included!
Via a long chain of googling too tedious to repeat, I find a wonderful poll on public attitudes towards French journalists. My interest was drawn to the question on public perceptions of journalistic independence. Two questions are asked, one on independence from political parties, and one on independence from economic concerns. Here’s the time-series on […]
