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BBC Charter renewal: invisible actors and critical friends

If the corporation is to defend itself against powerful vested interests it must work more closely with critical friends across the political spectrum.

By Julian Petley
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The Sunday Times, 12 July 

When the DCMS Green Paper on BBC Charter Renewal was published on 16 July, the reaction on the part of the corporation’s enemies in the press was relatively muted, particularly when compared to the way in which they had reacted, a few days earlier, to the leaked news of the upcoming consultation.  

Thus the paper which (seemingly inevitably) broke the story, The Sunday Times, 12 July, under the headline ‘Tories Give BBC Reform Ultimatum’, announced that:

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