TY - JOUR
AU - Winston, Brian
AB - @TheBJReview Whose news is it any way? Brian Winston The notion of public service kills good journalism. It’s time the BBC stopped doing news, says a historian of the media George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland etc etc…AND WHEREAS…more than two million persons in our United Kingdom…have applied for and taken out Licences to instal and operate apparatus for wireless telegraphy for the purposes of receiving Broadcast programmes…We believe that it would greatly…be of public benefit if a Corporation…were created by the exercise of Our Royal Prerogative and certain knowledge and of Our special grace and knowledge and mere motion… The King thus willed it and, on January 1, 1927, the British Broadcasting Corporation was so. It had been three decades since the viability of wireless telegraphy had first been unambiguously demonstrated. Its usefulness as a communication medium – that anybody could listen to its signals – was obvious, especially at sea. But so too was the disadvantage that stunted its commercial development on land, ie, anybody could listen. Privacy was impossible, In Britain, this confusion was compounded by the technology’s twin inheritance – its naval origins and 
TI - Whose News is it anyway?
JF - British Journalism Review
DO - 10.1177/0956474818781162
DA - 2018-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/whose-news-is-it-anyway-aGaa976dw0
SP - 51
EP - 55
VL - 29
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -