May 15th 2008
By: Russ
By: Russ
Ofcom PSB review: Channel 4’s past ain’t prologue…
Remember the year 2000? Those were the days, huh?
I guess ‘recycling the profits’ no longer works — so now they want to recycle the BBC licence fee!
‘Commercially financed without public funding’ — I guess that experiment is dead under current management.
Channel 4 is no longer a benchmark for media organisations around the world. It is a cautionary tale of what results when state ownership, lack of accountability and regulatory capture are combined in one toxic mixture.
It’s time to privatise this burden — or as I’ve joked before — maybe Northern Rock will finance C4’s ‘public service’…
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