‘anyone is free to start a daily national newspaper, but few can afford even to contemplate the prospect’ – Curran

‘the national press was overwhelmingly right wing… conservative party was 71% greater than conservative votes as a percentage of votes cast’ – Curran

‘high entry costs were found to curtail the freedom to publish in other sectors of the press between 2-3 million’ – Curran

‘the leading three properties share of the national daily press had soared up 89%’ – Curran

‘ if the press commissions flirtation with social market policies was a failure, the tentative steps they took to promote the professionalization of the press were scarcely more successful’ – Curran

‘until the 1980’s the broadcasting in Britain was not fettered, but liberated for cultural and political expansion by the requirements of public service’ – Seaton

‘public serving regulation has secured the survival or a successful broadcasting industry, one which became most significant economically and which has become and important exporter of programmed while continuing to discuss and mold national issues’ – Seaton

‘in 1980 public service became unfashionable. Yet those who derided it often had a financial interest in weakening it , or alternately, or disliked the political autonomy of broadcasting’ – Seaton

Corporations- what companies tell us and want us to think- get money

Public- government and state- inform public

Civil- us people- independent i.e school radio or hospital radio