seaton:

‘Broadcasting in Britain – monopoly or duopoly – always depended on an assumption of commitment to an undivided public good’ 

‘Beveridge suggested ‘the work of broadcasting should be regarded as a public service for a social purpose’’

‘The independence of broadcasting from the state has recently been seen as the most important condition of the services accountability’

‘The interests of the government had come, by the late 1970s, to be seen as inimical to those broadcasting’ 

‘Without a commitment to public service, broadcasters are increasingly vulnerable to detailed political interference in the content of programmed’  

Types of media ownership:

• Capitalist media: owned privately for the purpose of making  a profit. Example = Fox News (rupert murdoch)
• Public service media: owned by the government for the purpose of providing a service to the public. Example = BBC (British government)
• Citizen control media: owned by the head of an institution to inform the rest of the institution. Example = school newspaper