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BBC Under Attack

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3alaudacorax
Ene 27, 2020, 5:29 am

>2 antimuzak:

After Murdock's decades-long crusade against joined-together thinking, a radio station comparable to 4 would be a pretty remarkable U-turn. I'm sceptical.

5alaudacorax
Ene 30, 2020, 7:37 am

>4 antimuzak:

A good, rousing article, but it seems to me to have a weakness at the end. He writes of a

... vision of a system that is democratic and truly representative of the society it serves in all its diversity.

Though I'd consider myself as 'on his side', whatever that may mean, he's guilty of some really woolly thinking, there. Ours is very clearly not the society he wants it to be; it's one very much shaped by the 'socially harmful and wasteful' products he's decrying. If it's to be represented 'in all its diversity', that's pretty much what the BBC is doing now. Like it or not, if we want meaningful and quality stuff we are 'elitist' and part of a minority. We need to find convincingly arguable ideals alternative to 'democratic and truly representative'. I admit I don't know how we do that ...

6antimuzak
Feb 16, 2020, 4:20 pm

The idea of quality, trustfulness, authenticity, honesty, migh perhaps convince...

More here:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/this-government-thre...

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