This paper is a case study of the Czech central bank's communication with the public following the bank's decision to devalue the Czech currency. The aim is to contribute to knowledge of how central banks discharge their obligations to be transparent in communicating controversial decisions and actions. It is argued that transparency cannot be considered an individual act of the bank, but a joint dialogical accomplishment, which includes, among others, media and the public. The analysis of the interactions shows that the concepts of "dialogical networks" and "practical historians" are useful tools for elucidating how controversies in media develop over time.Text 1: CNB press release 1 CNB keeps interest rates unchanged, decides on interventions 2 7 Nov 2013 3 The CNB Bank Board decided at its meeting today to keep interest rates 4 unchanged. The two-week repo rate was maintained at 0.05%, the discount 5 rate at 0.05% and the Lombard rate at 0.25%. 6 The Bank Board also decided to start using the exchange rate as an additional 7 instrument for easing the monetary conditions. The CNB will intervene on 8 the foreign exchange market to weaken the koruna so that the exchange rate 9 of the koruna against the euro is close to CZK 27. 10 The history of the settings of the main instruments of monetary policy 11 and the Bank Board minutes are available at 12 14 Repo rate: The CNB's key monetary policy rate, paid on commercial banks' 15 excess liquidity as withdrawn by the CNB in two-week repo tenders. 16 Discount rate: A monetary policy rate which as a rule represents the floor for 17 short-term money market interest rates. The CNB applies it to the excess 18 liquidity which banks deposit with the CNB overnight under the deposit facility. 19 Lombard rate: A monetary policy interest rate which provides a ceiling for 20 short-term interest rates on the money market. The CNB applies it to the 21 liquidity which it provides to banks overnight under the lending facility. 22 Marek Petruš, CNB Spokesman
In this article, the authors examine the production of television news by a public service broadcaster, Czech Television. The aim is to understand the way in which reporters and their colleagues 'make the news'. Ethnomethodologically informed ethnography is used to analyse cooperation among TV professionals and make visible the everyday, routine, and situated practices with which they perform their tasks. The authors study how practitioners perform their work in consideration of their colleagues' work, that is, with an awareness of a common aim. They argue that the professional system of relevances of newsmakers is structured by socially established and shared knowledge of the genre specifi cs of television news reports. The authors describe the genre structure of a standard television news report from a praxeological perspective, and they show how reporters, camera operators, sound technicians, editors, and others mutually collaborate to create a shared understanding of the system of genre norms. The article devotes particular attention to a key component of reporting work: the organisation and fi lming of interviews with respondents. The analysis demonstrates that interviews with respondents function as an auxiliary television news genre and that the system of relevances in this case is derived from the television news report as a superordinate genre.
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