Study into the economic impact of the BBC on the UK | BBC Trust It’s great! Shocker. (tags: bbc-trust bbc pwc report economic impact) Some inconvenient truths | Ofcom “[M]arket provision may now be such that the consumer market failure arguments that sustained the old rationale for PSB, have been superseded. We are left largely…

Even though public policy is usually a rough mix of 99% pragmatism and 1% principle, there are a few occasions when the principle is asked to puts it head above the parapet. In policy relating to public service broadcasting in Britain (infotainment’s soup kitchen for the soul), pragmatism means preservation of a ‘strong’ BBC. And…

Just $3.6B: Total value of 10 news stocks | Reflections of a Newsosaur “[T]he total decline in value of the dozen newspaper shares trading since the first of the year was nearly $27.7 billion, a plunge of 35.7% in 6½ months. This calculation does not include the shares of Scripps…” (tags: decline newspapers stock) Greg…