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 […]
Most of the time, I look at public service broadcasters (PSBs) as exquisitely political creatures.
Most of the time, I think that’s the right perspective.
Recently, however, I’ve been looking at PSBs as corporations, with all the associated paraphernalia of corporate governance. The results have been interesting.
PSBs can be divided into two types: dual board, or single-board.
German […]
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 […]
Five years ago, a number of contributors to OpenDemocracy - largely drawn from the UK - discussed the merits of public service broadcasting (PSB), compared explicitly against the market and implicitly against some ideal broadcasting service which delivers just the right amount of merit goods. The key questions were normative - ought PSB exist, and […]
The Irish government launches an online consultation exercise
on reform of broadcasting legislation. More to follow on the details of the reform…
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