RDN proposes the NMT as a new voluntary movement which would fund informed debate and any other media material the literate, affluent, bossy middle class fancy was suffering from “market failure”.
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 20 September 2009. No comments.
The BBC won’t survive the next five years without massive changes. It’ll get (or keep) a lot less licence fee. It is much weaker than it ever has been. It is likely to be privatised. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / RDN's media cribsheets on 16 June 2009. No comments.
I told Radio 5’s breakfast show that Lord Carter’s proposal of a shift of a small, marginal BBC budget toward the ITV regional news operation at least had the merit of breaking the principle of BBC monopoly on state funding. Otherwise, it’s not all that clever. Locals should pay for local journalism, and probably use cheaper dissemination than TV. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 24 January 2009. No comments.
Alan Rusbridger has suggested that the tax-payer ought to subsidise local newspapers. This is a very bad idea. Even my proposed National Media Trust should not do that. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 23 January 2009. No comments.
The latest Ofcom report and the new Reuters Institute book in their different ways bolster the case for a National Media Trust. They don’t know it, of course. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / Politics and campaigns / TV and Radio on 17 January 2009. No comments.
Serious journalism is in dire financial straits. All its business models are under threat. It’s time for the literate, affluent, bossy middle class to club together and fix things. They did it for buildings and landscape. Now they can do it for the national debate. More »
Posted by RDN under "National Media Trust" / RDN's media cribsheets / TV and Radio on 30 November 2008. No comments.
BBC Radio 4’s iPM show asked me comment on their finding that people might be prepared to pay (an average of) £143 for BBC services. I replied that with a National Trust of the Airwaves they might pay less and get more. More »
