THE THEORY OF THE LIBERAL FREE PRESS

The primary democratic role of the media is to act as a public watchdog

Once the media becomes subject to public regulation… transformed… in the service of the state

Three key concepts… the media as a public watchdog, public representative and source of information

reconceptualized and reincarnated in a new form (in reference to the media/news/public sphere

Only by anchoring the media to the free market is it possible to ensure the media’s complete independence from the government.

 THE ROLE OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

Creating a image of its audience as participants in the great affairs of the nation

Sources of finance did not compete … key to the possibility of political independence

Broadcasting in Britain always depended on an assumption of mommitment to an undivided public good

the power of legislation to restrain the growth of the presss concentration