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The citizenship rationale for public service broadcasting
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…
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links for 2008-07-17
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…
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Live blogging: Future of Public Service Broadcasting
London Business School: David Currie, outgoing Ofcom (UK broadcast/digital regulator) chairman.
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Journalism and the law
I like lawyers. They always smile, even when they’re not actually billing you. Big hats off to Andy Scott of the LSE‘s law department for bringing together a terrific cast of what we in journalism would – rather unimaginatively – call “top lawyers.” It was Chatham House rules, but the lawyers thought: