{"id":12628,"date":"2015-03-13T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12628"},"modified":"2015-03-12T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T19:24:46","slug":"rai-may-face-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/rai-may-face-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"RAI may face reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RAI-Italy\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Bill Patalon, for sharing this article about potential reform at Italy state broadcaster, RAI:<\/p>\n

(Source:\u00a0The Economist<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“SELDOM has an organisational chart prompted a defamation trial. Yet judges in Milan recently heard a case involving a colour-coded table published by Libero, a newspaper. The chart listed 900 executives of Italy\u2019s public television and radio network, RAI, and the political parties to which they supposedly owed their appointment. Dismissing charges of libel, the judges said it was well known that, in RAI, \u201ceven the most meritorious individuals are favoured by their acquaintanceships in political circles\u201d.<\/p>\n

Italian commentators call RAI the \u201cmirror of the nation\u201d: an institution so permeated by competing interests that it sometimes anticipates political shifts even before they surface. Once, this was not unhealthy. Instead of being in thrall to the government of the day, RAI offered contrasting viewpoints. The Christian Democrats controlled the first television channel, the Socialists the second and, from 1979, the Communists a third. All three parties disintegrated in the 1990s, but the idea that politicians were entitled to meddle in RAI survived. The number of newsrooms grew to 11, as did a spirit of fierce internal rivalry.<\/p>\n

[Continue reading at The Economist…<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Bill Patalon, for sharing this article about potential reform at Italy state broadcaster, RAI: (Source:\u00a0The Economist) “SELDOM has an organisational chart prompted a defamation trial. Yet judges in Milan recently heard a case involving a colour-coded table published by Libero, a newspaper. The chart listed 900 executives of Italy\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[169,3686],"class_list":["post-12628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-rai","tag-rai-italy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3hG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42390,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/la-radio-per-litalia-a-special-friday-broadcast-over-the-rai-radio-network\/","url_meta":{"origin":12628,"position":0},"title":"La radio per l’Italia: A special Friday broadcast over the RAI Radio network","author":"Thomas","date":"March 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to an SWLing Post contributor in Italy who notes that Friday, March 16, 2020 at 11:00 local, (10:00 UTC)\u00a0 RAI will broadcast a special program across their entire network. 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