We should be able to choose content we value, rather than be subjected to the incessant nudging of commercial platformsThere is a new urgency to debates about the future of public broadcasting. The first question we should be asking is not how the
BBC can be saved from its enemies on the right, but more constructively, what kind of public media organisation would best meet the technological and political challenges of the 21st century? Were we to build such an organisation from scratch, I don’t think it would look much like the BBC today.
The BBC is not
Netflix, and the argument for the licence fee should not be based solely on its programming