Welcome decision from the Sarkozy government, which clarifies that any reforms to the governance of France Télévisions will not curtail the term in office of group president Patrick de Carolis.
Poll shows that 71% of respondents are opposed to presidential nomination of the head of France Télévisions. 11% have no opinion; 18% agree with Sarkozy that it is “logical” that the state should name the head of a corporation it owns.
Unfortunately Le Parisien does not provide the text of the questions asked; Le Monde is […]
Au delà des critiques sur la réforme en soi, c’est une réplique de M. Carolis – “lorsqu’on dit qu’il n’y a pas de différence entre la télévision de service public et les télévisions privées, je trouve cela faux, je trouve cela stupide, et je trouve cela profondément injuste” – qui a provoqué la fureur et […]
From the comments in this Le Monde article it seems that Sarkozy has actually thought about this, and wasn’t speaking in impromptu fashion.
This suggestion goes against the trend of moving such appointments away from the executive. Reaction is somewhere between hostile and incensed.
The argument in favour of presidential nomination is that too often the current […]
Sarko accepts licence fee increases for France Télévisions after having been against it; PPDA leaves the eight o’clock bulletin.
The left-wing parties have now officially withdrawn their representatives from the Copé commission, arguing that the Commission’s recommendations are either going to be laid down by the Elysée or ignored.
For a reform that seemed to have been drawn up on the hoof by Sarkozy, there’s quite a lot of intransigence going around.
Quick link to this thoughtful piece on the possibility and desirability of an independent media in Sarkozy’s France - thoughtful primarily for recognising that the desirable level of media independence is not always the maximum level.
