No sooner do I complete my June paper (a 15,000 word research design for the thesis), than I find a new data point on perceptions of political independence by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting.
The first poll is by Ipsos-Reid, and asks
Thinking specifically about the CBC…which of the following two statements is closer to your […]
“People have clear views about how their health should be provided for, the economy should be managed, and the environment be protected, but attitudes towards government intervention in the communications field appear fitful and unfocused. Perhaps it is more difficult for people to have well-formulated views on the organization and control of institutions and technologies […]
In my thesis, I claimed that “there is no available polling evidence on whether Italians believe Rai to be independent of the government”. That’s not quite right. There’s no public polling data, but I’ve hit the jackpot through trawling through the catalogue of the Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale: I’ve got Rai’s own internal data.
Granted, it’s from […]
Even better data from this 2003 CSA / Marianne poll on l’image des journalistes: 23% of French people think the media are independent of “political power”, Patrick Poivre d’Arvor, Jean-Pierre Pernaud, and Claire Chazal are cited as particularly independent. Cross-tabs are included!
Via a long chain of googling too tedious to repeat, I find a wonderful poll on public attitudes towards French journalists. My interest was drawn to the question on public perceptions of journalistic independence. Two questions are asked, one on independence from political parties, and one on independence from economic concerns. Here’s the time-series on […]
Nordicom Review 1-2/2004 - Publication: “Mass Media, Interpersonal Communication or Personal Experience? Perceptions of Media Effects among Swedish Politicians” - is an interesting article demonstrating that politicians are far more likely than the general population to be believe that the mass media is extremely influential slash decisive in forming people’s political views - something I’ve […]
As part of my doctorate, I’m researching the political independence of public service broadcasters. This is a difficult concept to define, much less measure. One approach is to ask people whether they perceive the broadcaster to be independent - or impartial, or biased. (The latter two are very different to the former, but may be […]
