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Steven Barnett

Steven Barnett is professor of communications at the University of Westminster and the author of several books on broadcasting. He writes a fortnightly column for the London Observer.

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The old David Elstein understood what the new one has seemingly forgotten, that an obsession with cost leads to the worst of both worlds – inefficiency as well as an erosion of the creative spirit. It is time to rethink.