5 quotes from The Theory of Liberal Free Press:
- “The market-based press is independent because it owes allegiance only to the public.”
- “In the thirty years after 1977, there was a major expansion of local press concentration, but a small reduction in the dominant three groups’ share of national press circulation”
- “News papers have poured money into developing news sites, thereby pre-empting the rise of rivals.”
- “The press commissions had slightly more success in seeking to keep the press and broadcasting industries separate, in the interests of maintaining media pluralism.”
- “Public dissatisfaction with the press, registered periodically in opinion polls, continued to be high”.
5 Quotes from The Role of Public Service Broadcasting:
- “The influence of broadcasting upon the mind and speech of the nation’, made it an urgent necessity in the national interest that the broadcasting service at all times should be conducted in the best possible manner and to the best possible advantage of the people.”
- “Peacock exposed many of the contradictions in the Thatcherite espousal of market forces.”
- “The independence of broadcasting from the states has recently been seen as the most important condition of the services accountability.”
- “The significance of broadcasting independence is also disputed. One side suggests that the independence is functional and must be extended to guarantee accountable broadcasting”