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.
The Adam Smith Institute and the wider right could never palate the success of any publicly funded institution, so their latest reports' prescriptions for the BBC come as no surprise, argues Steven Barnett.
In the first issue of openDemocracy we published a defense of public service broadcasting by Andrew Graham - one of its most influential British advocates. At the same time David