'independence' Category
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Oct052009
Independence of regulatory agencies in the USA
From yesterday’s New York Times:
Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, No. 08-861, for instance, concerns an issue that has engaged the court since the New Deal: at what point does the lack of presidential control over independent agencies violate separation-of-powers principles?
The case arose from the last big financial crisis, the accounting scandals [...] -
Jun212007
The Consequence of Sarko
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.
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May282007
Polls on CBC’s independence
No sooner do I complete my June paper (a 15,000 word research design for the thesis), than I find a new data point on perceptions of political independence by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
The first poll is by Ipsos-Reid, and asks
Thinking specifically about the CBC…which of the following two statements is closer to your [...] -
Apr172007
Public attitudes towards Rai
In my thesis, I claimed that “there is no available polling evidence on whether Italians believe Rai to be independent of the government”. That’s not quite right. There’s no public polling data, but I’ve hit the jackpot through trawling through the catalogue of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale: I’ve got Rai’s own internal data.
Granted, it’s from [...] -
Apr152007
More on the independence of French journalists
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!
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Apr152007
Journalistic independence in France
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 [...]