For all the warts on British television, a year in America taught me just how lucky we are to have not just the BBC but also a range of diversely funded channels with different layers of public service ambitions and obligations. The lesson from America is that, if news and public affairs are left purely to the market, it will most likely give the government what it wants.” Writes the BBC’s John Willis in the Guardian.
Meanwhile Al Gore wants to do something about it.
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