It’s great! Shocker.

“[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may now be such that the consumer market failure arguments that sustained the old rationale for PSB, have been superseded.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 with the citizenship arguments.”

“One reason there are so many anonymously sourced news stories in New York and Washington publications is because reporters outnumber good sources by a wide margin…”

“[W]hile happy to put numbers to the BBC’s positive market impact, the PWC researchers didn’t find time to quantify any of the potential negative markets impacts resulting from the £3.5bn of public money spent by the BBC on delivering said purposes.”

There are a very large number of potential targets where protection is essentially a waste of resources and a much more limited one where it may be effective.”

the Metropolitan Police insist that (a) they’re not going to release data for crime mapping (b) even if they did, they keep it amalgamated on such a level that it wouldn’t be any use to anyone.

Gotta love this: “[F]ans are allowed to have an opinion of their own, but threatening or disrespecting the writer just goes to show that the specific reader is not only ill informed but immature.”