Desafueros políticos y pluralismo

July 5 2015 / By El Colombiano Es muy posible que Donald Trump, el estridente empresario que actúa ahora como precandidato del partido republicano para optar por la Presidencia de la primera democracia del mundo, tuviera perfectamente calculadas las consecuencias políticas y mediáticas de sus disparatadas declaraciones contra los latinos -concretamente los mexicanos- inmigrantes en…

The disengagement: A media lesson

1 July 2015 / By Israel Fried Last year, journalist Kalman Libeskind conducted an interview on Galey Yisrael with attorney Dov Weisglass, who, as an adviser to the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was one of the leading figures in the formulation of the Gaza disengagement plan. “We estimated the Palestinian Authority wouldn’t have difficulty…

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Czech prime minister calls for media ownership ceilings

26 June 2015 / By Chris Johnstone The Czech prime minister’s comments on media pluralism and ownership came in a meeting with European public broadcasting bosses as their grouping, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), meets in Prague for its strategy setting general assembly. Bohuslav Sobotka said that the Czech media market should be subject to stepped…

Media merger guidelines are impotent and an act of cowardice

19 June 2015 / By Alison O’Connor The general lack of reaction to the Government’s new media-merger guidelines, which were published last week, says a lot. In the midst of a massive national controversy about the concentration of media ownership and censorship, Alex White, the communications minister, finally publishes the new rules for governing this…