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Magazine covers…
[The peerless Onion – HT: Jeremy Leslie]
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Public service broadcasting – don’t text in your votes
Funny really. The only time television has ever really cared about voting was when it offered an opportunity to drain money from audiences. When it comes to public policy, broadcasting follows the long British tradition of deferring decisions to appointed boards of scrupulously selected, upstanding gentlefolk. God forbid those board members be politicised, or lured…
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Public service broadcasting 101 (Give us the cash or Gordon Ramsay replaces Jon Snow)
I haven’t put pen to paper on the Ofcom PSB review. The review is thorough but transparent, the best take on it is from Ofcomwatch – I’ve added a link to a pdf of Stigler’s seminal article. Nobel winner George Stigler famously observed [pdf] that firms often acquire policy or regulation so as to serve…
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Invitation to a book launch
The launch debate for Can You Trust The Media? will be at City’s Cass Business School, on Wednesday, April 30 (6 for 6.30pm). Sarah Montague of Today will be taking the chair. Andrew Gilligan, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Charlie Beckett and myself will be panelling. Q&A to follow. You are – of course – cordially invited.