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Veltroni: no to new Rai appointments with the current law

Walter Veltroni has come out against nominating a new Rai board with the current law. Whilst one might disagree with the method found in the current law to appoint board members (seven of nine members by parliamentary committee, president plus one ordinary member by ministerial nomination subject to two-thirds majority in the same committee), it […]

Posted 12 May 2008 † Chris § veltroni § rai § appointments ‡ Comments (0)

Grillo gets it right

I don’t normally agree with comic-turned-political-agent-provocateur Beppe Grillo, but I have to say that the three referendum proposals he’s announced under the banner “Libera informazione in libero stato” (Free information in a free country) are spot on. The proposals are to:

abolish the Ordine dei Giornalisti, a Fascist-era institution which journalists must be enrolled in;
abolish subsidies […]

Posted 14 March 2008 † Chris § grillo § newspapers § party funding § italy ‡ Comments (1)

How many Italian politicians does it take to fire a broadcaster?

The Gasparri law which currently regulates the Italian media landscape is a bad law in very many ways. Not least of these is the fact that it sets out two different ways of appointing and removing members to the Board of Rai.
The first of these - the one currently in use - is hidden away […]

Posted 24 August 2007 † Chris § italy § petroni § padoa schioppa § rai § law ‡ Comments (0)

New Italian media law announced

Event:The Prodi government has agreed changes to Italy’s framework media law, reducing generous antri-trust limits set by the previous Berlusconi government.
Significance:Public broadcaster Rai and private corporation Mediaset - owned by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - enjoy a de facto duopoly over Italian television. Each has three of seven national terrestrial channels, and their advertising […]

Posted 12 October 2006 † Chris § gentiloni § rai § law § mediaset ‡ Comments (0)