Judith Vidal-Hall is former editor of the free expression magazine Index on Censorship and currently commissioning editor of "Manifestos for the Twenty-first Century" for Seagull Books. She is a member of the Eurozine Advisory Board.
Despite the Internet's growing significance as vehicle of freedom of expression, public service broadcasting and the printed press will remain for some time the visible face of the watchdog on power. In western Europe, the traditional media need to prove they are still capable of performing this r