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TomBo
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Public Service Broadcasting
Aug 03, 2003, 11:15
Stray & Morfe, I hope my blindness to your ironies has caused no offence! I'm not very good at irony sometimes, though I try very hard to get it...

I think that the public, for the most part, get what they want. There's been a debate in broadcasting for decades now, ever since the BBC was formed, about whether just to give the public what they want. The BBC is, allegedly, a "Public Service Broadcaster". This means that it has to try to "educate and inform" the public as well as "entertain" them - in short, the government expects it to do more than simply giving the public what they want. The other channels aren't meant to be public service broadcasters so they just churn out whatever brings the ratings in: ie. sex and violence. Is this visible in the style/quality of programmes on the BBC? I'm not sure - I ain't seen it for a while now! It used to be that it was a damn sight better than ITV/C5, at any rate...
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