To a certain extent the BBC and Channel 4 have some of the same problem ; the deregulatiing, rationalising and market-purist zeal was very and blunt and unsubtle in the UK during the 1990's, muc… (View Post)

Good good. I really hope this hare-brained plan is seen off. Once more people know about how Channel 4 might really be brought back to its best, then we might really be getting somewhere. (View Post)

At the end of the 1980's there was backlash against "highbrow culture" from figures such as Murdoch, who had the ear of Thatcher. Part of the restructuring of broadcasting wasn't … (View Post)

The thing is, Channel 4 News doesn't only have a periodic left-wing slant, but also, very often and in many different types of contexts, too, a clear upmarket and in-depth, analytical slant, com… (View Post)

Look at the precedents - once you remove a public service remit, things are very different. GB News is like Talk Radio, or Twitter ; noise and fire for clicks. When the Tories removed the public serv… (View Post)