James Curran

• the free market, it is also argued, makes the press a representative institution.
• the market based press is independent because it owes allegiance only to the public.
• perhaps the closest the press commissions came to following a social market strategy was to advocate special anti-monopoly measures for the press
• the press complains commission (PCC) was established in 1991
• the campaign for press and broadcasting freedom (CPBF), established in 1979, continued to be an eloquent exponent of reform.

Jean Seaton

• British broadcasting was started as a public service, and this proved as creative commercially as it was innovative culturally

three types of media ownership