Chris Hanretty

'journalists' Category

• Oct

  04

  2009

  Astonishing editorial from Minzolini

  One of the strange parts of Italian television news — at least for those who come from Britain — is that the directors of the principal television news broadcasts often do direct-to-camera editorials.
  To me, the idea of an editorial seems to be an abandonment of the classical doctrine of impartiality, as espoused by most other [...]

  posted in impartiality, journalists, minzolini, rai by Chris

• Jan

  29

  2008

  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 in history, italy, journalists by Chris

• Aug

  31

  2007

  Friday round-up

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

  posted in canada, france, funding, italy, journalists, petroni by Chris

• Apr

  24

  2007

  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 in journalists, survey, svt, sweden by Chris