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Paper on pluralism

Presented at the ASMI Conference over the weekend. From the abstract:
    In this paper I argue that the concept of pluralism – the most important value in
the Italian media debate – is conceptually confused. I identify three mutually incom-
patible conceptions of pluralism used when discussing the public broadcaster Rai: (1)
structural pluralism, satisfied when the public […]

Posted 26 November 2008 † Chris § academia ‡ Comments (0)

Political balance = balance of politicians?

The centre-right is annoyed with Rai thanks to two programmes: Fabio Fazio’s hosting of Finance Minister Padoa-Schioppa on Che Tempo Che Fa, and Lucia Annunziata’s hosting of Enrico Deaglio on Ballaro. Padoa-Schioppa took time to explain the left’s budget; Deaglio, a journalist, argued that the centre-right was ready to stuff the ballot boxes in last […]

Posted 21 November 2006 † Chris § annunziata § balance § bias § rai ‡ Comments (0)