Chris Hanretty

'political interference' Category

• Jun

  30

  2008

  From “TV-fee” to “Public service fee”

  The committee on public service broadcasting in Sweden recommends that the name of the television licence fee ‘tv-avgift’ be changed to ‘public-service avgift’ in order not to annoy people when they pay avgifter on their laptops.
  Update:  the report is now available. Additional elements include VAT payment on the licence fee, with the differencein funds for [...]

  posted in funding, licence fee, political interference, sweden by Chris

• Oct

  24

  2007

  Petruccioli no-conned by parliamentary committee

  The Italian parliamentary committee that oversees Rai has expressed its lack of confidence in Rai president Claudio Petruccioli thanks to the votes of the Udeur and Italia dei Valori. Given that “the parliamentary commission has no power to revoke” Petruccioli, as correctly noted by Fabrizio Morri, it’ll be interesting to see what happens. Asthe resoconto [...]

  posted in italy, petruccioli, political interference, rai by Chris

• Apr

  02

  2007

  The best ‘Dear Joergen’ letter ever

  Jeppe alerted me to a brewing storm in the Danish media. Former director of Danmarks Radio (DR) Christian Nissen has, in his new book about his time with the broadcaster, reproduced an email from Culture Minister Brian Mikkelsen complaining about DR’s coverage of the Iraq war, and threatening to private DR instead of already announced [...]

  posted in danmarks radio, denmark, political interference by Chris

• Jan

  11

  2007

  Government interference

  I’ve belatedly found a wonderful survey from May last year on trust in the media. As usual, the relevant cross-tabs are buried behind several links. The juiciest information for my purposes comes with the agree/disagree responses to the statement, “The government interferes too much in the media in our country”. The question isn’t ideal for [...]

  posted in brazil, egypt, india, indonesia, media, nigeria, political interference, russia, south korea, trust, united kingdom, united states by Chris

• Nov

  23

  2006

  News from Flanders

  Variety has the most ridiculously over-blown style. Here it describes the sacking of VRT CEO Tony Mary after the Flemish government got pissed off with Mary’s sale of a popular TV show to a pay-per-view competitor. Piet Van Roe replaces Mary.

  posted in appointments, belgium, political interference, vrt by Chris

• Jul

  23

  2006

  Fox attacks BBC’s Iraq coverage

  Independent Online Edition > Media: “Liam Fox, the shadow Defence Secretary, has accused the BBC of pumping out ‘unrelentingly negative’ reports about Iraq without giving adequate coverage to more positive developments.”

  posted in BBC, conservatives, fox, political interference, uk by Chris