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Dusty and Cam - 2.9.17 - Hour 2

Feb 9, 2017|

Charles Oakley was booted from MSG...what happened? Also, sign stealing in sports, Throwback Thursday, and a big game for Ducks hoops.

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Thanks for listen to dusting camp podcast brought to you on the fanned by your local less Schwab tire center do the right thing since 1952. This is dusty and jam in the morning at this who really knew each other. Accuse us it's easy to pop up maybe even born free GP. It's just an era. White farmer. And the man who looks up and permissible teriyaki benefits as a college all American can easily looking at. Why doesn't anybody in the world every than anything. Dusty and examine the more million dollar and 1080 USA on them. 55305. That is our text line. The attack Debian BAB in south what do you that is not so hot he's still down fight last night. Charles Oakley. Take over in the media tick over the back page of the New York Post and in social media. Win the former New York Knick great. Got ejected from Madison Square Garden last night. He said in a couple rows back from courtside. Enjoying the knicks and clippers game. Which is actually pretty good game. It got me to turn on the game defected Charles Oakley got ejected. I'm wanted to see what it was don't argue it happened it was a good game came down of the buzzer but what happened is we saw. All of a sudden like give big these fractious started Chris stops resume this is at the free throw line. And all the sudden you see this skirmish. In. The game stops parsing asserts that an hour Dioner Jordan search walking over to like the tunnel. In a dairy is Charles Oakley is being held back 545. Security guards. And he's screaming importing into the stands. And it appears he's. Yelling had James Dolan the owner of the team and starts pushing a security guard. Right in he gets harassed a gaping PJ hill poking him in the head with his big senior DC that. Did Charles Oakley was revoking the owner notice and now allows almost thirty yards pushing gas jabbing him right finger yet I mean is. You gave an aggressive there and it is like you saw that flash of Charles Oakley is not bagging it right you know in even that what he's got to be fifty. Early fifties probably fifty. I agreed five some either serve like that right. That guy was still go on and it. Why in the equity trying to fight James Dolan is another question the owner of the New York Knicks. I have no idea I've no idea I just did you know when I was I was amazed I saw this number one. I loved everything about it in a sense that it it it showed the fire what Charles Oakley was. I'd I didn't see him I mean okay William and now the violence when it comes down to punching in indicating a bunch of security guards I'm not non Bora that Wright who bought. Whatever happened whatever the reason was that instigated it what I wanna know I'm sure all sort of come out as we start to see it. What what pushed him over the edge what was the reason why bullish there was their frustration within owner is there a past history between the two was there heckling going on we don't know. There is there in there is a a lot of history between. Charles Oakley and James Dolan. He has not been happy with that and be ownership group for a few years now he had a a public group falling out when James Dolan he gained Oakley is he has his demons he's been to rehab. In Dolan kind of took a shot him a few years back to windows Fiat to its Charles Oakley and and I guess the New York Times. Had an article and he basically. Said yeah I have my issues that James Dolan and ownership of the next. Let's take him out to dinner in you know my. And so this is been like Iraqi relationship for a couple of years. Fast or did this year where they're at their seventieth anniversary. In James Dolan is excluded Charles Oakley from everything in that's a guy that ten years of the next ten years the next in some of their best years that they had as a franchise. And he's sitting there and he feels disrespected by James Dolan. Which leads us to last night where I'm assuming he paid for his tickets. Together and sailor he says he did yeah yeah because of the fact that many customers fan owners and let him get through the doors. He gives good seats they're pretty close to you. Where James Dolan is. And let's have Charles Oakley explained to you at ABC seven in New York. What happened after that. It happened needed for free is with the game that I was six in the coat boots. You do is sit down and have good. They feel the way as well as the leader bill that's lives. And to. That's what you believe you both. So what order you to leave them like. I've been euphoria minutes of a mixed day is. Played it continues. A little mix a little new you'll slow hard and always have all the look. This is says. On the best vocal. We'll go. Now welcome to the guard. And what happened next they say a move so big guy has. More more could come within me and I'm like why do not believe. And what reason they. Base happily. They get order. Bill with a look back into. Total disrespect you but. You don't think that new life and move. Look I was no windows on their books. Get out. And having it escalate from when they ask you this. I mean he feels about all the W we got the detectives that no matter. I believe it was like before a big joke before the bomb no matter that they realize that you see simply that together walk the ball you have the brace itself. It be good for the Cilic than the thought they. And I flip and Luke was so what do you think of that well first of all yes when do is walk up on you you better be prepared. So that I know I I've had experiences were dudes have come comic thing. Like that and yet you protect yourself even if you're in one of those and areas now we know. Aid chart I don't know Charles background cannot could sit there and say that she's had those experiences you probably had a rough background and had multiple experience and this. See number one you need to know that. Anybody that comes he would do multiple group and anyone says you just sit there and cower well that's you eat your life is different in his life different so I can't sit there and say that. And would do his reaction is who he is as a man and what his experiences in life also and those of you that say how dare react that way who live his life and and you let me know you would have done. So let's say that. To see that he was kicked out of the game I'm assuming until I hear more. Dame Joan but her Indian wanna sit behind him into the bill only reason I can see this figured out. We should and he notes that. On all accounts where that before he is asked to leave. Charles Oakley wasn't disruptive. To a degree that should have gotten anybody kicked out the size coming from fans or people around the witnessed it yeah everyone siding with Oakley here I heard Perez. I saw on Twitter that there was a cop and NYPD cop. In the arena that was joining in on a three Charles Oakley jet later in the game if that's wonderful he got up and that is you sit there and you go. All right so did Charles Oakley do anything his reaction. Heat and he went over he went far beyond kind of The Who what he would've but I think most people would have done does that mean you sit their knees hit amnesty that's tiny. The security guard that's trying to look at what times on. He's Astride well that's because usually it's understandable when you put hands on somebody you know a whole different deal in vote Charles they're sitting there going hey man back up and then Oakley is getting irate in the initiative known better than to charge which I really not a put Internet security guard are gonna need German Charles Oakley yeah. Dammit Jim etc. well. This is the knicks statement which doesn't make and I'll say this is that you know Charles Oakley came to the game tonight and behaved in a highly inappropriate and completely the abusive manner he's been ejected and is currently being arrested by the new York city police department. Using great nick and we hope he gets them helps him. That's it and that is. That just as much is kicking him out for no reason is why the knicks are getting criticized sold. Much for this yeah I mean. First of all I love the fact that Charles Oakley is. Still just pissed off that everything I mean that was how he played that's how he was is who he is is a man. And yeah. Yeah in the know that the fact that James Dolan. T take criticism. For. How he's run the franchise into the ground and from players that built it up you always hear does so much for that franchise right you've always show heard. You always hear from players who built up a franchise that watching go into the tank like they are always the ones that are gonna speak out and say this isn't the franchise that I now right this is a wide eyed bill and it's sad to see ago. Having an owner of that team at realize and accept the fact that the knicks suck. In he's a large part of it you know whether he was one that forced Phil Jackson TU. Give Carmelo Anthony the massive contract or effect he hired Phil Jackson to run his team. It's been run into the ground recently. Or ship is a reflection and of your product. Indeed we did Phil Jackson is crazy right now but either way the reports are that Phil Jackson went into the tunnel asked Charles what was the problem. Mean since it is there's a whole fracas going on any try to calm the situation down also reported that Michael Jordan was was supposed to give McCall is they're good friends. And to calm him down because it was a serious situation uses the mad did you see the Doc Rivers quote go for a second I almost wonder run over their upper Canada. While there is. He has been charged with three. Counts of misdemeanor. Assault. And criminal trespassing. At one count of criminal trespassing the knicks had a good thing they drop all charges. Yet they probably won't. They probably won't. And you can Wear capital weeks' time. It's greatly Andrea James on good good greatly underrated in this. Is the fact that you can as John McEnroe was right there was right in the middle of it. John. Johnny Mac's was he's got happen if yup among get right in the middle of it and he was trying to call Moakley down in discount to put security guards round. It very by bit the only tennis player in the world that would get involved with that is John McEnroe. Jimmy Connors Manning maybe but John macro yes yeah Jimmy Connors Jimmy Connors usher via. But McEnroe back getting in the middle of that I've got to tell of course it is and eight in New York the stars are gonna be there. I love the fact he uses like all right let's do this in need to got eight. Little known fact about this one he took his hat off to get in the middle of that even better so John McEnroe he meant business and and in there Mac comes off its all does give the people watching on and see is any seed John McEnroe is the silver fox in that. In that picture there he is wearing a hat later in the game he's going to elect a New York Rangers have anywhere and and accept. Later in the game so he tickets out because he's like let's do this summit and it is this a comparison between. Fan bases but just this is not never happening in LA at Staples Center this video this is Sony yours. And all the fans are siding with locally the core players are siding with locally or the media. Is sudden with Oakley frank as oil and diesel of the New York Daily News is has been read in the knicks and I saw LeBron posted a picture locally artisans to Graham last night yeah. Support that some players do. This breaking news two days after calling frank castle a trash. Frank castle LeBron James they get along Charles Oakley Charles Oakley bringing people together isn't it is and it just another. We need we need a little bit of toughness and sports right. Yeah and endorsement people actually support a little bit toughness. Yeah. Oh business. No I agree if you just what do you want to use it as a result would. The list are just such heartless position was no love on each other know this so great who's gonna do this or any other team now. He's gonna jump internal fight the owner well yeah I consider about white's New York like I don't want to shows you how dysfunctional the knicks aren't rather hey we need more of this tournament and now better than us about the knicks were talking about someone. That has passion. For what they believe in right if they're back. Yes I did an eye on I belonged sitting in this seat yeah I brought this is Oklahoma likes this game. Screw you right take me to jail give me a reason why are kicking me out right did. Did you that's right and he deserved to reason I assure you one thing get one a tribunal. Pissed off to you if I have a low anime and and good for sports that. I don't think this is of but nobody is calling it we don't poke in the bear here's the Deion Sanders. Hit a Sanders accused Tony Dungy team. Accuse Tony Dungy of cheating and Tony Dungy isn't denying it. By a factor of five this is testing came on the fan. This is a dusty into Eminem or million dollar and 1080. These. It's pretty funny things on the Charles and again don't situation. Even more funny text and not about class and yeah. Indeed James Dolan situation is also good to you because you know and this goes back to the spoiled kids conversation them as Lanka's Dolan. Comes from very successful family. And green ideas made a ton of money on his own and but this comes back to you. Hey this what happens man win people aren't equipped to run these franchises. Take them over and run them into the ground and they have thin skinned about it and they get their four players are charged a player arrested in James McEnroe. Or just teams actor John McEnroe has gone in fact people because it I love it. Let's go media butter cup done in other news EC Deion Sanders called the Indianapolis Colts and in doing so Tony Dungy Jeter's toss you know what I love about. They instance sports is just guys that are retired and on and and they're not part of the game anymore. They feeling begin to say whatever they want. What I do from from Charles Barkley to Deion Sanders to oak leaf. The this is a whole generational issue in this is (%expletive) this is fun to me because now we get to see you all your fans out there we get to really see. How the sausage is made because that whole era of guys that didn't have a chance to have social media club they have it now. And we get to hear about it and this is one of those this is one of those I think you either. It it's kind of like how either say tomato or tomorrow right user potato potato guy. Well heed the reason why Deion Sanders calls them cheaters. Is because of the fact that. He says. That the Indianapolis Colts used to steal signs. And in doing give they wanna began at a leg up on the competition they would steal signs so Peyton Manning would know what's coming. And it and that's why Peyton Manning was no he didn't say that black. But he said that they would steal their sides. In Gaza Jeter's Jeter's. Thirty Jun dungy responded with. We are wrong. We did steal the signs. But it's not cheating it's cheating because it'd. Spy gave them. Like the patriots in week two is they had a guy actually videotaping so they can archive it in keeping it on record. Day he says what we would do is we would just decipher your signs if you want them stolen beat better. Okay. Where you stand on earth. Well Crawford birdies stamp I wanna know I think that every single team. Tries to figure out the other team's doing parent why in the world if this wasn't common place. People need to look at when an offensive team is signaling plays. How many people are actually doing it now that I have the sidelines like you you have like three quarterback signed yet and hits. There's a G dumbest thing I've ever need organ with the scene with all words this guy did you they got two of those with four squadrons CF eight squadrons and then three people signaling in it. If if stealing signs was not commonplace. You just have one guy you think the whole tie yeah I hate when when coaches call on other coaches for stealing signs can you know everyone's doing it. You know like you just said dusty it would be. I think like into thing like stealing signs is the thing you would need signs if your gonna try to steal him. Went way way back in the day we just called the play call the zealots like then okay. Well he's doesn't do not trying to think of think about what just. Just a sideline how much it's changed now you have six guys we shirts on one guy as happy a sandwich boards. You come wind socks protecting each other an angle yeah it's an absolute circus on the sideline as long as there are signs to be stolen. Feeble attempt to steal so is it. Okay. Is it okay. It's teams and each Eileen just needs a yes or no it's okay yeah dusty yeah it's fine it's part of the game bringing the baseball coaches. The Berlin. Right while many may give went running ahead if you do that Crawford true yeah get a gap bill plucky furiously on so you come across the middlemen take on ready your so what's the deal anymore with the football equivalent of long can a guy in your own Needham bags out to play you get him. Yeah I can't really get away with that stuff anymore it's kind of lets the frustration with a lot of guys is there's no retaliation in football the best retaliation is just beating him. Current now. Multiple for multi experiences I've had teams call the play in front meanwhile we're getting ready to run the ball you know pro ball. But it linebackers in people's appear to go all right here every nose run an affirmation. K. And guess what we've still been able to do give an eight yard gain ten yard pass play. I don't keep her in a million years in when it comes down in the end is that. Is you know the play's most the time. It doesn't really matter but hey great teams in football. You've from high school all the way up when you run the wing T get how many plays you run appointees voter it about five. What you need to steal signals. No wonder does better in sedate the football thing I laugh about it drywall on me baseball's a little different because I know curve balls coming that's a big advantage final fastballs government. That's a big advantage. This isn't like we are you leaks yeah even member of the WikiLeaks where they would. Word literally giving game plans handing them over aware yeah this is what we think you're gonna deal on third down. And these are your tendencies of us is our gonna attack you weighed different who in this isn't even the same planet know. Of what it says in game strategy this is. There is windy defense is on the field the second or third string quarterback is on the sidelines easily. Looking at the other senate trying to figure out who's that big quell live guy down who's the live signal guy and it's getting the play in so they can try and figured out right. It's a whole team effort to trying get this thing down. And it's. It's not a big deal if I invite you visit IA do it IC sports on IC's coaches that level they're so worried about getting the call in and being. Too high analysts say trendy offense that they get distracted the point of just. All the play you know it's now we got to put a wrist band to got to make sure that they can't see this year we got to run temple but I need eighteen sandwich boards and Cusick. What happened to just call the play and run it. It doesn't matter I got a better athlete than you I understand what coaches are so caught up in a wanting to be trendy. And they need to miniature -- where every guy needs his own brief span because he needs to know what to do released but it does he need to risk Spanish public just call the play. Let them learn the play. This is a signal saying at the hot that the elite level though when you're talking NFL level. Signals and changes you keep reading in that article what do Steve Steve to berg tell you in that article. He was brought on that it is their fault they didn't change the hand signals. He's gonna stand there and say hey coach dungy they're re their run and go routes here the running pitches looked at the same signal you what do Payton man and do. He knew that to bird was over there so he changed in gave dummy calls death that's the elite level as you do that part of game. For many simple my man. But let's put wrist bands on everybody Sosa also everybody's all worried about what things and can't learn and he just it's changed it's changed so much. In in sports I think for Spain's third different in that its speed of the game. I think a lot of coaches do justice speeded up right they wanna run temple. Yeah yeah that's why they do it live and I don't see a problem with for a spent on a kid I mean you know your problem with a kid looking at a wrist band same block down a set and knowing what his other teammates are doing. Are you learning football by just looking at a rid spanning going very Florida down I think very few coaches have that. Pins institute did you get her spending to play it and there's a lot of coaches that look at that go. Down block. Now well when you say wrist and I do you think of is conventionally you one guy needs a wrist spam is bad or wreck everybody else has no business carrying a respect well if you rent tempo you do. That's my point. What tempo. That's Eisenstein shouldn't run tempo no you can run tembo without risk grants you don't dearest fans. You know he respects ask anybody that's a that's a high level. Professional or anybody understands football you don't teach football wrist bands would date within that the went insane is I think a lot of coaches will go you could fit our protection too to make the game easier for them. Make the game easier for the coach beamer did at speeds up the play call it cuts out the quarterback looking at is or spend and Hammond a call up the play. If everybody commit to decide not just yet I understand it I'm giving you my opinion of him what's detrimental to teaching sports oh yeah. When players don't understand what you're doing it throughout the entire play. Then they don't understand the concept of why you're running that play they understand to be Connecticut and why I'm with you on that and I never disagreed with that I agree I'm just saying that. Yeah and though you're saying only the quarterback needs the wrist band. In insane if you wanna run tempo speeded up crank it up let's go get him and got ringer temples. Like this Texan came in let's say the three of you were sitting in the studio and every time Crawford puts a thumbs up. Dusty box cam on the head over and over again being Kim notices the thumb up. It's Max dusty before he box you to a guy like cheating that's not cheating at all not cheating no it's not cheating that's so all right Smart scene self aware yeah I spit it back up a again there's a hand slap coming I better change this yet dusty I'm going to step I got a longer armed than those who I can't reach or their end I had penciled that in. CD cases right to Deion Sanders accusing Tony gent dungy of cheating in Tony Dungy says. Yeah. But it's not cheating. You're tight you're totally wrong. And we should all get over it because how much do you think the pactel coaches you mentioned when we talk but the years in a statement it how everybody's bed sheets. Yeah when they have to bed sheets up. Like the coach is only only say that because airs on stage really good at it. It only becomes an issue when a media member asked the coach in the cuts as yet they have an elaborate system to steal years you signals. That's why we have the bed sheets. We haven't heard. Except for Mike Leach is the only guy who's really come on set I take. Extreme issue at this politicos is like yes of we just are taking a preventative steps so they can't do it well they all have an extreme issue with it but they're just not as outspoken as coach Leach. We. There their description of we have an issue with it is to put them would giant. Bed sheets all of the sidelines they don't need to say it like that she eats. How many would you think the thread count is not it's not a high and Egyptian cotton non it's more of lycra. And McCain are about that Egyptian economy are good things to do good things. Were flannel nowadays and it's cold enough. I can understand how people sleep in the final I like being warm and flannel sheets. Hey so wet bock yeah add to about wanna get gold silk sheets. And. And Big Ten is licking their chops at potential rule change in recruiting. Will help the northwest schools as well. Here's golden sheets trafford with the sports and our update. This is just didn't camp in the morning you know I intimidated yeah. It's still cool sheets non. I Solomon a movie they looked cool you know who Crawford reminds me of that I see him in the future I'm appalled. 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Monitoring EU Guidelines in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Continuing political pressures and obstructions

Monitoring EU Guidelines in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Continuing political pressures and obstructions
Independence and transparency of regulator and public service broadcaster in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This report briefly assess independence and transparency of the media regulator and public service media in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2014 and early 2015 taking into account the indicators in the Guidelines for EU support to media freedom and media integrity in enlargement countries, 2014-2020.

PHOTO by Ojan.

Independence and professional conduct of the regulator
Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) is formally guaranteed the freedom from political control under the Law on Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, political influence and pressures have persevered over the years. Top management appointments in CRA are highly politicised.
Independence and transparency of Communications Regulatory Agency
Communications Regulatory Agency (CRA) is formally guaranteed the freedom from political control under the Law on Communications of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003, amended 2006, 2010 and 2012). Law on Communications (Article 39) also sets requirements that should prevent conflict of interest: similarly as the director general, members of the CRA Council cannot be officials in legislative and executive power of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), or members of any bodies within political parties, while any interest of a member of CRA Council in telecommunications’ operator or a broadcaster should be declared, and he/she should exclude himself/herself in “cases representing a conflict of interest”. However, it is not specified what constitutes such conflict of interests (apart from wording of the law on conflict of interest in institutions of BiH).
Law on Communications stipulates the merit system in the appointment of members of CRA Council (minimum of five years of work experience in the related fields, experience in both telecommunication and broadcasting, etc.). Article 36 of the Law on Communications stipulates the independence of CRA in decision-making. However, political influence and pressures have persevered over the years, and the risks of such pressures have been increased with changes in the procedures of appointments in CRA since 2012 (more below), continuing in 2014 without any adequate remedies.
Transparency of CRA is regulated under the requirements for transparent procedures concerning appointment of CRA officials, adopting new regulations, reaching decisions upon complaints on media content, etc. CRA submits annual reports to the Council of Ministers of BiH, as stipulated in Law on Communications, Article 44. CRA publishes annual reports on its website, as well as decisions regarding the complaints about broadcasted content. The regulator is also obliged to respond to requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act of BiH. CRA seems responsive to requests for information, and generally follows minimum transparency requests, facing no major criticism in this regard. The exception was the case of amendments to Code on Commercial Communications from 2013 (later abandoned) when the procedure of changing the code was seen as unjustifiably hasty and unresponsive to the needs of the entire community and the public.
CRA played an important role in setting a regulatory framework for broadcasting in BiH, particularly in fight against hate and discriminatory speech and in overall pacification of media content in years after the war. It continues to play an important role in regulating broadcasting sector, and despite the ongoing political pressures, the procedures of licensing of broadcasters, for example, is still considered to be apolitical. However, limited capacities do not allow CRA to perform a regular monitoring of implementation of content requirements by broadcasters; it rarely substantially engages in policy initiatives outside its constricted powers.
Top management appointments in CRA are highly politicised. Supposedly due to the lack of political agreement, the Director General has not been officially appointed for several years (instead, Kemal Huseinović acted as director for several years until he resigned in December 2014; Jasenko Lasta is acting as director since the beginning of 2015). At the same time, the merits of the candidates for the CRA Council seem to be neglected; members appointed at the end of 2013 are considered to have close political affiliations. More direct political interference is made possible with amendments to the Law on Communications adopted in 2012, which introduced an ad hoc body within the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH that is proposing the list of 14 candidates for the CRA Council (which was previously the role of the CRA Council itself). The list is sent first to the Council of Ministers, before being submitted to the parliamentary procedure. In that way not only the Parliament is given more power, but the role of the Council of Ministers remains unclear, raising additional concerns about political control over the appointment. It remains to be seen if newly formed government will reach agreement on the appointment of director general in 2015.
The independence of CRA is formally assured through independent sources of financing, such as technical fees for licences for broadcasting and telecommunications, as well as donations. The budget proposal approved by the Council of CRA is submitted for approval to the Council of Ministers of BiH, which does not have the power to change the proposed budget by more than 20 percent (Law on Financing BiH Institutions, 2004, amended 2009; Article 9). Annual reports on CRA are regularly published on its website, and provide relevant track record of its performance. However, the 2014 annual report has not been published by mid-May 2015. Additional assessments on the functioning of CRA are provided by audit reports (2013 audit report available here). The reports have been largely positive, confirming the financial reports of CRA as adequate. However, there is lack of substantial external assessments of the transparency, independence and professionalism of CRA.
Consultations in developing media policies
The state bodies responsible for media policy have been indolent, therefore the media legislation did not advance in past several years. The exception is the regulation under the authorities of the Communication Regulatory Agency, which has been amended in accordance with the EU directives. Any potential influence of research and analyses on media policies is indistinct, and such research is hardly ever commissioned by policy makers, supposedly primarily due to the lack of interest and capacities. Some policy initiatives in previous years are perceived to have been guided by particular business and political interests (as in changes in appointment of members of the CRA Council, initiatives for changes of the Freedom of Information Act 2013, decisions on limit of advertising for public broadcasters in 2013, etc.), but no such cases were registered in 2014.
Authorities have also never engaged in disclosing economic pressures on media and establishing legal checks against such pressures. There are virtually no analyses by relevant institutions, and no state body has accepted any responsibility for monitoring of such pressures. The audit reports of public institutions partially provide basic data for such analyses. Some indications and estimations about economic pressures can be found in the media and in the reports produced by NGOs. However, the Strategy for Fight Against Corruption 2015-2019, adopted in May 2015, recognises the importance of media, including the transparency of media ownership and independent sources of media financing (pp. 37-38). The Strategy is a new document and it is not clear yet if it will lead to any changes of policies and practices by the relevant authorities.
Although there are no specific consultations concerning the changes of legislative and regulatory framework pertaining to media sector, public hearings (an obligatory step in adoption of laws and regulations) are formally open to members of the media sector. However, these procedures can be corrupted, as indicated in the abovementioned attempt to amend the Code on Commercial Communications in 2013. Contesting business and political interests within media sector were demonstrated, and some actors believed the CRA decision (later ousted) showed growing influence of commercial broadcasters on policy changes. However, both in that case and in the case of detrimental changes to Freedom of Information Act proposed in 2013, the problematic solutions were retracted/stopped after the reactions from the media sector and wider community. Other than these rare examples, media and civil sector have had modest influence on development of media policies. Media sector also remains fragmented along entity and ethnic lines, as well as competing political and business interests, which obstruct common engagement.
Although CRA is consulted when it comes to developing legislation pertaining to media sector, including broadcasting (for example in the current case of draft proposal of Law on Electronic Communications), its power to actually influence decisions is marginal. When it comes to developing internal rules and regulations, CRA is free to act out of its own accord.

There is an alarming lack of transparency and monitoring of government funding of media in Bosnia and Herzegovina. CRA neither publishes nor is obliged by law to publish information or promote financial transparency of broadcasters.

Transparency of media ownership and media financing
The data on media ownership are available in different registries, but they are not made easily available.  CRA holds information on ownership and documents on court registration of the broadcasters (reported in the licensing procedure, under the Rules 55/2011 and 58/2011). Broadcasters should also report to CRA if their ownership structure changes for more than 5 percent (Rule 55/2011, Article 22 (3); Rule 58/2011, Article 23 (3)). However, the ownership information is not published online (only the names of directors and editors-in-chief are available online).
The Register of the CRA licence users, which will be obliged to insert and update their ownership data in the online databases, although foreseen in the Rule 71/2013, has not been established yet.
Media outlets are also required to register as business entities in the court records (Framework Law on Registration of Business Entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2004, and relevant entity laws on registration). While the data on ownership within those registries are available to public upon request, the availability is hindered by the fact that data are fragmented along 15 court registries (ten in Federation BiH and five district courts in Republika Srpska). Also, the access is not free of charge. While there is an online register of businesses in the Federation of BiH with information on initial capital and founders of businesses (including media), such data from Republika Srpska are not available in an online register. Although registries are being regularly updated, data do not seem to always mutually concur. Data on some print and online media outlets are not included in the online registry in Federation BiH. Furthermore, no mechanisms of control of possible hidden ownership are in place. Data on owners might be indistinct due to related ownership over several business entities. Therefore the gathering of information on media ownership may become costly and complicated. Transparency of ownership of online media is further obstructed with some online media not being even registered as business subjects and acting as completely unregulated platforms for pursuing particular political and/or business interests.
With the exception of the 2013 analysis of the sources of revenues of TV broadcasters, CRA neither publishes nor is obliged by law to publish information or promote financial transparency of broadcasters. Information on financial operations of public service broadcasters are generally available (mostly through financial reports published at their websites, and within audit reports). Among private media, only larger companies are required to expose their financial operations to external audit, while none are obliged to make their financial information available to public.
Having that in mind, there is an alarming lack of transparency and monitoring of government funding of media. The funds fuelling from the government institutions and public companies into the media market are believed to be large, especially given that public companies are major advertisers, and that local governments directly finance a large portion of local broadcasters.
Additionally, in the previous years, the Government of Republika Srpska has provided substantial amounts of money to several media outlets in Republika Srpska. Although the audit reports for 2010 and 2011 pointed to lack of transparency (i.e. failure to publish open call, set clear criteria, and to control the spending) the Government of RS did not agree with the findings. It continued with the same irregularities, demonstrating very limited effect of such audits and their recommendations. The budgetary constraints hindered such funding in 2013, but Transparency International’s report indicates that in 2014, as a year of general elections, some public funds were misused for public events of SNSD, leading party in the Government of Republika Srpska.
There is an overall lack of mechanisms to ensure that government funding in the media in BiH is legitimate, transparent and in the service of public interest. No specific decision-making body on media subsidies exists, and such funding can easily be misused for particular political and business benefits. Civil society organisations believe that the 2014 Law on Public Procurement (which should be applied to contracts with media as well; see Annex 2) does not adequately address the issues of transparency, annexes to contracts or conflict of interest, but generally rather increases already high level of corrupt practices in procurement procedures. The public institutions and companies are subject to auditing, which should provide assessment of their financial operations and allocation of funds. However, the public audit offices have limited capacities, so the public companies are not regularly monitored (only occasionally). While three public broadcasters are obliged to commission annual auditing, the local public media, for example, with fewer employees and lower budgets are not exposed to such control. Moreover, as mentioned earlier, the mechanisms of implementation of audit recommendations are weak.
Although the data on public funding should be available upon request submitted to specific institutions, the actual availability is questionable since the data are shattered and the Freedom of Information Act is still not consistently respected. There is a lack of proactive publishing of information, and lack of user-friendly formats of published material. For illustration, the Official Gazettes (on state and entity-level) involve information on subsidies for media, but they are not easily searchable databases, and are available only to subscribers (for a fee).
The advertisements by big state-owned companies have never been an object of substantial and systematic monitoring, although they continue to raise concerns in 2014. The data are in theory available upon request, but public companies are generally the least responsive to requests for information. Some information on advertising is available in annual reports (available here and here) and audit reports of state-owned companies. However, they are not easily and consistently available (for example on the website of BH Telecom only reports from 2013 and 2014 are available), not regularly conducted by state audit offices (rather conducted depending on their capacities and priorities), and not always detailed in terms of revision of advertising practices.
Finally, privatisation process is stalled for decades. Print media had been privatised, but there were considerable doubts about the abuse of power and irregularities involving both the buyers and members of privatisation teams (mainly in privatisation of the newspapers Oslobođenje and Večernje novine). On the other hand, the broadcasting sector has not been privatised and a large number of broadcasters (12 out of 43 TV stations and 61 out of 140 radio stations, data from March 2015) are still directly financed from the budgets of cantonal and municipal authorities, which adds up to large sums. Apart from the assessment from 2012 (indicating the amount of 7.8 million EUR) there are no available data on the amount of such funding for 2014, nor there are any initiatives concerning privatisation.
Audience measurement facing difficulties
Since 2011, the audience measurement has been marked by different controversies. Some sources expressed doubts in reliability of the results. The Association of Broadcasters and Advertising Companies “UMI” lost its role of commissioner of the audience measurements, and now new company Audience Measurement – AM (instead of previous provider Mareco Index Bosnia) is contracted individually by TV broadcasters. In 2014 and at the beginning of 2015, some sources suggested that common ownership over AM, a laboratory that licenses the equipment for measurement, and allegedly a TV outlet, possibly corrupts the measurements. AM responded to such accusations that it is merely a campaign against them guided by interests of few media and advertising agencies. One thing is certain: increasing controversies raise doubts about reliability and credibility of TV measurements in BiH. Quality and the extent of the audience research in other media sectors are limited (diary method in radio sector, no monitoring of print circulation, use of Google analytics or Alexia and only partly of Gemius Audience measurements in online media sector).
Open risk of concentration of ownership and of problematic competition
There have been no specific rules on concentration of ownership or on cross-ownership in media since 2006, when the 2004 Rule on Media Concentration and Ownership of Electronic and Print Media expired. The Council of Competition of BiH is however authorised to consider specific cases of possible prohibited competition and misuse of market position upon a complaint (under Competition Act, 2005), including “state and local public institutions, when they directly or indirectly participate or affect the market” (Article 2, paragraph 1.b). So far there has not been any strategic consideration, action or statement of this body, for example, concerning the competition between the public and commercial media. There are also no major decisions in the cases of individual complaints on possible abuse of dominant market position. For example, in case of the recent complaint filed by OBN television against three public service broadcasters, the Council of Competition did not reach consensus between its members, and no abuse of dominant market position was confirmed. Although CRA has expressed the need for anti-concentration rules that would pertain to entire media sector, including press agencies and print and online media, such initiative did not receive needed attention by relevant institutions. In these circumstances the concentration remains an open risk, although few registered cases of multiple ownership still does not qualify as an alarming concentration. Some actors however express concerns over possible misuse of dominant position of local public broadcasters when compared to private broadcasters. Concerns have also been raised with regard to possible corruptive practices arising from the alleged common ownership of a TV outlet, audience data provider and a laboratory that licenses equipment for audience measurement.
Public service media
Supervisory bodies of public service broadcasters in Bosnia and Herzegovina are perceived to be politically suitable, allowing or even contributing to political interference in functioning of PSBs. PSB reporting to the parliament is often delayed, and accessibility of the  reports for the public is not consistent.
Public service remit: in part defined but unmonitored and institutionally underdeveloped
Public service system reflects the complex constitutional arrangements, with three public service broadcasters: state BHRT, and two entity-level public broadcasters – RTVFBiH for the Federation of BiH and RTRS for the Republika Srpska. Public service remit is to a certain extent defined in the laws pertaining to public service media, involving demand for accurate and quality reporting, different types of programs (Law on Public RTV System of BiH, 2005, amended in 2009 and 2010), demand for respect of general ethical standards, equal representation of content reflecting heritage of all three peoples and ‘Others’, and affirmation of cultural and other needs of national minorities (laws on each PSB). All public broadcasters are obliged to dedicate 10 percent of overall weekly informative and educational programming (which should amount to 40 percent of the overall program) to the issues related to refugees, displaced persons, members of national minorities and vulnerable groups (Rule 57/11 on Public Radio and Television Broadcasters, Article 3). However, there were no initiatives to further specify public service remit and to consult the broader public on the issue. While there is no monitoring of performance of PSB in this regard, some assessments indicate, for example, that there is a serious lack of cross-ethnic reporting on political issues, lack of educative programs, and inadequate representation of minority groups in the PSB programming.
Standards of professional ethics are specified in Communications Law, in the rules adopted and implemented by CRA and in the particular laws and regulations pertaining to public broadcasters. CRA monitors and enforces their implementation, but there are no internal mechanisms of dealing with viewers’ complaints – there are no established internal procedures or positions responsible for dealing with complaints. There are also no substantial surveys of public trust in PSB, with only indicators of public trust being the data about the level of collection of subscription fees, data on viewership/listenership (which are not publicly available), as well as some indicators provided by civic sector (for example annual report by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung based on survey about, inter alia, satisfaction with media in BiH). The collection of subscription fee is decreasing but the overall trust of public in the media increased in 2014. The overall conclusion is that public trust and public interests should be better monitored and addressed in PSB programming.
Lack of independence of PSB: politicised appointments and jeopardised financing
Editorial independence is stipulated in the Rule 57/2011 on Public Radio and Television Broadcasters, the Law on Public RTV Service of BiH, the Law on RTV FBiH and Law on RTRS. In practice, however, the situation is quite the opposite – political interference in PSB is believed to be very strong. RTRS is believed to be under a complete control by the government of RS, i.e. the ruling party Alliance of Independent Social Democrats party (SNSD) while RTV FBiH has been for a long time perceived as an advocate for Social-Democratic Party (SDP). Third public service broadcaster - RTVBiH – is considered to be more balanced, but also less relevant for political actors.
The appointment of members of supervisory bodies  – Boards of Governors – in each of the public service broadcasters is highly politicised. While ethnicity of the members is predetermined (one of each constituent peoples – Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs, and one representative of ‘Others’), there is a lack of precise professional criteria for the appointments, although the Law on Public RTV Service of BiH specifies they should be the “most qualified candidates”, and the laws on appointment of ministers and other public vacancies stipulate that criteria should include level of education, expert knowledge/experience etc. The authority over the appointments in RTRS and FTV is left completely in the hands of the Parliament of FBiH and the National Assembly of RS (Law on RTV FBiH and Law on RTRS, respectively). Prior to the legislative changes in 2013, the Communication Regulatory Agency (CRA) had a role in submitting the list of proposed candidates for the RTRS Board, but the National Assembly of RS could easily refuse the proposed list. In the case of BHRT, the CRA still has this role of proposing the members of the Board.
Members in all three broadcasters cannot perform the functions within legislative, executive or judicial power, nor can they hold membership in political parties (according to the Rule 57/2011 on Public Radio and TV Broadcasters). However, in practice the boards are perceived to be politically suitable, allowing or even contributing to political interference in functioning of PSBs. Political pressures and obstructions are visible in the case of the Board of FTV: after the 2012 illegitimate attempt of the Parliament of FBiH to dismiss the Board and appoint new members failed, the previous members remained on their positions although their mandate expired. Since August 2014, when the third of the previous members resigned, the Board is left with one member only.  Each public service broadcaster should have a Programming Council; it should have an advisory role and include members from different groups. In practice their actual performance is not monitored, and in the case of FTV the Programming Council does not exist at all in recent years.
The public service broadcasters have the independent sources of revenues, mainly subscription (licence) fee and advertising. All households and legal entities possessing a radio or television receiver are obliged by law to pay the fee, but the actual collection is limited (74 percent of invoiced amount collected in 2012). Even more, if all households are taken into account, the estimated collection goes down to as low as 46.5 percent. The amount of the collected licence fee has been constantly dropping in past several years: in the first four months of 2014 it dropped by 1.6 million KM compared to the same period in 2013. The growing number of IPTV users is excluded from the collection through phone bills. In addition, political disputes hinder collection of subscription/license fee as well. For example, the Croatian political representatives encourage citizens of Croatian nationality not to pay the subscription fee, claiming that the existing PSB system in BiH is not responsive to the needs of Croatian people. They demand a new PSB institution to be established with programming in Croatian language. Finally, political battles have been influencing the latest debates about the collection scheme that formally expired on 26 of April 2015. The solutions for a new mechanism of the subscription fee collection were hindered by political disputes between parties: representatives of SDS claimed at the parliamentary debate in March 2015 that RTRS is a service of one party – SNSD and therefore should not be financed by the people. At the same time, SNSD advocates for direct funding of RTRS from the entity budget, made possible with 2013 amendments to the Law on RTRS. At the end, the proposed solution was not adopted in the Parliament. As a temporary solution, the management of public service broadcasters instead reached agreement with the telecom operators in April 2015 to continue collection through phone bills, until the end of 2015.
Over the past years, the management of PSB system (mainly FTV and BHRT) raised concerns about the alarming financial situation within these broadcasters (for example, here), but there is no assessment that would give insight into what are the actual needs for their proper functioning to accomplish public service remit. PSB system in BiH is robust and in urgent need for rationalisation of its resources and efficient coordination between the three broadcasters. Concerns that the excessive advertising share of PSB system in the media market and in the budget of some of the PSB (according to CRA, FTV had around 40 percent of its overall income coming from commercial advertising in 2012) can corrupt its public service role remain in 2014 as well.
Financial accountability
Although public service broadcasters are obliged to submit annual reports, the financial monitoring nevertheless faces serious problems. Mainly, reporting to the parliament/national assembly is often delayed, and accessibility of the reports for the public is not consistent (some reports are accessible on the respective web-sites of BHRT, RTV FBiH and RTRS, but reports for 2013 and 2014 are not available at any of them). The role of the annual reports in providing accountability of PSBs is questioned under the circumstances where corrective mechanisms after financial audits are not provided. For instance, audit report for FTV for 2013 was negative and highlighted several irregularities including lack of respect of procurement procedures, unjustifiable discounts in advertising contracts with two advertising agencies, and determining the level of payment for particular employees dissonant with the internal norms. Although the recommendations of previous audits have been similar, they were not implemented and the management did not suffer any consequences. Also, as it was demonstrated by the 2012 attempt to dismiss the members of the Board of Governors of FTV, financial irregularities can be misused as an excuse for imposing particular political interests in control of PSBs. Accountability of PSBs is further diminished by the fact that annual work plans are not consistently published, and for example none has been published for 2014. The last plan published by FTV was for 2011, the last for RTRS is for 2013, while plans of BHRT could not be found on their website.
Failed digitalisation
Digitalisation in BiH has failed and the country is facing the dire consequences. Namely, since the digitalisation strategy was adopted in 2009, the lack of political will has hindered further developments. The attempts to adopt the action plan failed and the Corporation of PSB System, as a body that should have been leading the digitalisation process, has never been established (although it is envisaged by the Law on PSB System from 2005). Public service broadcasters partly digitised the production capacities in 2014, and part of the equipment needed for the digital network of public service broadcasters has been purchased, but due to political obstructions from Republika Srpska it was not fully installed. BiH is now waiting for the final deadline for switchover – 17 June 2015 - totally unprepared, with state Council of Ministers not even yet discussed measures proposed by CRA on minimising the consequences. Namely, after the deadline, with the increasing use of digital resources in the countries in the region, they will experience interferences from the analogue signals in BH and will normally request those signals to be shut down.
At this point no one is able to predict the extent of the problems that the broadcasters from BiH will face. Helena Mandić from CRA believes the signals of broadcasters from BiH will be virtually erased. The public service broadcasters will lose part of their coverage, many of the local public and commercial broadcasters will be closed and the broadcasting industry in BiH will be put at risk. State budget will be damaged since CRA will not be able to invoice the fees for broadcasting licences, and finally, TV audience will be affected. In addition to foreign TV programs, only those TV programs in BiH that are not broadcasted through analogue frequencies will be available – to users of cable or other similar services only. Cable distributers are required to include in their offer the PSBs’ programs and programs of other broadcasters based on their territory. However, a significant part of the population in BiH still using analogue TV antennas will not be in a position to watch any TV program.
Note: This report is produced in May 2015 by the SEE Media Observatory as a contribution to the 2015 assessment of two results – independent and professional regulators, and public service media –  elaborated in the Guidelines for EU support to media freedom and media integrity in enlargement countries, 2014-2020. The content of the assessment follows the indicators included in the EU Guidelines. See the overview of the indicators for independent and professional regulators and for public service media, as elaborated in the EU Guidelines here.
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MOSCOW, USSR – It’s been over 32 years since Rocky Balboa avenged his friend and formal rival and turned the tide of the Cold War on Christmas Day in 1985. Much to Rock’s chagrin, tensions with Russia have returned. (Do you smell a corny, contrived device coming yet?) In the spirit of that legendary night, Ivan Drago and Rocky help me take a look at the New York Yankees push to catch the Red Sox and the upcoming NFL season. Let’s bob and weave.

He’s not a machine. He’s a man.

In spite of a near-Metsian amount of injuries, the Yanks have pulled within 6.5 games (after a brutal lose last night) by beating up on some familiar punching bags. But the real surprise was Boston getting swept over the weekend for the first time this season by the pesky Rays. The Rays are too far back this year, but they’ve had an impact on this race by roughing up both of the lead dogs. Or maybe that’s just a wash. Never mind.

Picking up the slack…

Anyway, the Yankees still have little chance of catching the Sox, but with Chris Sale’s shoulder barking again, it’s not off the table. And as I said before, they only have to make up three and a half more games to make the last series in Boston interesting.

You will lose

Sorry Buffalo Bills fans, but you’re looking at a rough year. A totally revamped O-line with a QB stable of a project rookie, a journeyman, and a Peterman is not a formula for success. What is the over/under on Bills win th… I’ll take the under. That was me interrupting myself.

The unraveling?

If he dies, he dies

No one ever got rich by betting against the Patriots, but this seems like the year it might start to unravel. There have been warning signs aplenty and the fallout from the Garoppolo debacle is still lingering.

Brady can’t take anymore questions about his beloved roid provider trainer and stormed out of an interview like his annoying little pissant daughter. I kid, I’m sure she’s sweet. This team has plenty of holes. But it could all go horribly wrong for them and they will still probably win this crap division at 8-8.

If I can change, you can change. Everybody can change.

I expect a bounce back year from Derek Carr in Oakland. Jon Gruden, who turned Rich Gannon into an MVP, will get quality play out of him. He also has plenty of interesting toys with Amari Cooper, Martavis Bryant, and Jordy Nelson. Grab him as your backup in fantasy with a late round flyer and thank me later.

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The 0.7mm thick polished sterling silver discs are 3cm in diameter and suspended from 3.5cm of 1mm box chain with a connecting T-bar clasp. This versatile fastener enables the pieces to be worn as a necklace, bracelet, dog tag or button hole.

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The Mellanby Centre for Bone Research, based in the University of Sheffield’s Medical School, was established in 2009 and aims to:

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