In my work on broadcasters, I am often critical of lottizzazione. Today, I read a paragraph which made me realise I come from an institute which practices it. Philip Schlesinger, writing in a 1991 book on Culture, Identity & Broadcasting in Ireland (p. 43):
[On] the question of identity in Europe… my interest was first seriously […]
From the wonderful (recently extended) Repubblica archive:
“Epoca carried out a survey on lottizzazione in Rai, asking 79 parliamentariansof various parties whether they would look favourably on an overhaul of the party-based division of the three networks and three news bulletins. The noes won: 48 of 100 parliamentarians preferred that things remained as they are, whilst […]
Measures of central bank independence have sometimes used the rate of turnover of Central Bank Governors as an indicator of de facto independence (which, it turns out, is reasonably strongly correlated with de jure independence). How does it work for PSBs? The following table gives the average time in post of a number of PSB […]
Whilst the BBC struggles to clarify its position on news-readers wearing the veil, Rai nominates a number of office-holders. In short, business as usual. For completeness’ sake, here are the nominees:
Luigi Meloni (Unione, allegedly) - vice-director, HR;
Alessandro Zucca (CdL, allegedly) - vice-director, HR;
Valerio Fiorespino - vice-director, TV Resources;
Giancarlo d’Arma - vice-director, Acquisitions
I continue to wonder […]
Now that RTVE Director-General Carmen Caffarel is calling on politicians to name high-quality independent members of RTVE’s future Board, I thought it might be useful to see whether, in the past, Directors-General have frequently been tossed out by over-mighty boards. I finally found this list of previous Directors-General. Let’s have a look:
Fernando Castedo (Jan ‘81 […]
There was a certain moment in the nineties when it looked as if the era of lottizzazione - of the division of posts in Rai along party-political lines - might come to an end. This wonderful piece from l’Opinione suggests it hasn’t. It includes three classic elements of pre-1992 lottizzazione:
Bizarre names to refer to methods […]
In the same week that two key nominations are made “in full autonomy”, according to Petruccioli, “nomine politiche”, according to La Russa, Beppe Grillo writes about another route to power in Rai: nepotism.
