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Etichette

How do nominees to public bodies get tagged as supporters of a particular political party? I have always found it fascinating how, in Italy, nominees to various posts in Rai are very often tagged as being close to a particular party - or, failing that, to a particular political area.
Reading George Talbot’s book, Censorship in […]

Posted 29 January 2008 † Chris § history § italy ‡ Comments (0)

Friday round-up

CBC journalist runs for parliament.
France Télévisions asks for more money.
Rome court to decide tomorrow on the Petroni case.

Posted 31 August 2007 † Chris § petroni § funding § italy § france § canada ‡ Comments (0)

Journalists’ partisan leanings in Sweden & SVT

I’m currently waiting on the data from Journalist ‘05, a regular (every five years) survey of Swedish journalists, which are as I write being turned into book form by Prof. Kent Asp and colleagues. In the meantime, here are some results from the 2000 survey:

Public
Journalists
SVT Journalists

Left
15
31
33

Social Democrats
32
27
23

Centre
4
3
2

People’s Party
5
14
17

Moderates
25
10
6

Greens
6
10
14

Christian Democrats
13
5
5

Journalists in general are more left-libertarian […]

Posted 24 April 2007 † Chris § survey § svt § sweden ‡ Comments (0)