Media City, Salford. Credit: Phil Gradwell / Flickr
About four years ago, I wrote a pamphlet suggesting that mutual ownership of the media would address two key challenges it faces the world over – how do you pay for it, and to whom and for what is it accountable.
One of the ideas I floated was that the BBC could become the British Broadcasting Co-operative, moving from 20th century ownership on behalf of the public in whose service its broadcasting was undertaken, to a 21st century approach in which people were more than able to run these things themselves, thanks very much.
