The openDemocracy debate continues as Todd Gitlin responds to oD's Anthony Barnett and the Guardian's Alan Rusbridger, reporting on the effects of Fox and his fears that the web won't be able to restore a media the public can trust
The Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief, Alan Rusbridger has published an important online overview of the ‘Fourth Estate’, and invited this response from Anthony Barnett, whose latest thoughts on the press, public service broadcasting and the BBC, the future of the web, Rupert Murdoch and democracy, argue
A new report shows that British media horizons are shrinking
The rhetoric and tone of a recent Channel 4 News piece on local council spending is more reminiscent of the Tax Payer’s Alliance than a quality public service broadcaster.
The BBC's flagship politics show, Question Time, gives an insight into the closed elitist mindset of the metropolitan political classes and their cultivated ignorance towards the nature of the UK.
The freeze to the BBC licence fee announced on Wednesday was a defeat for viewers and listeners, for BBC staff, for the independence of one of our most respected institutions, for the principles underlying the licence fee and for the whole of public service broadcasting.
A recent report shows a loud but persistent minority are uncomfortable with the portrayal of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in programmes aimed at child audiences on the BBC. Tom Wicker argues that the on-screen lives of lesbian, gay and bisexual people need to consist of more than confron
It is understandable that people are fearful of Murdoch's power over the media, but there is no real justification for Vince Cable to intervene in News Corp's takeover of BSkyB.
British local media is in trouble, we need a much more lively and intelligent approach than just government cuts and schemes imported from the US
The attacks on US market provision of high-quality programming by defenders of the BBC, exemplified by Steve Barnett's response to David Graham's Adam Smith Institute paper, are misguided and misleading. Despite differences between the US and UK, we still have much to learn from US TV, argues Davi
