Essay on whether the public service is broadcasting an obsolete idea
A casual glance at the state of British broadcasting in 2005 might easily lead one to think that the efflorescence of new broadcasting forms seen at the end of the twentieth-century — from satellite television, cable television, digital television, digital radio, the internet and so on — have rendered monolithic public broadcasting organizations such as the BBC obsolete: that is, they are now dinosaurs left behind from the birth of broadcasting in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
