http://www.martinstabe.com/2005/09/26/brownies-and-civil-service-professionalism/ A UK-centric look at new media and online journalism Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:09:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.martinstabe.com/2005/09/26/brownies-and-civil-service-professionalism/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Tim Worstall Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://martinstabe.com/blog2/?p=1108#comment-127 I was going to put "Western" as opposed to UK in my piece as the counter example to hte US system and thought better of it. The appointment of people to run the State Owned companies in Italy is a highly political exercise, the people who run Spanish broadcasting change at each election. The US might be different in the cronyism in the Civil Service specifically but there are plenty of places just as bad right across public life. I was going to put “Western” as opposed to UK in my piece as the counter example to hte US system and thought better of it. The appointment of people to run the State Owned companies in Italy is a highly political exercise, the people who run Spanish broadcasting change at each election. The US might be different in the cronyism in the Civil Service specifically but there are plenty of places just as bad right across public life.

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