On 16/03/2009 11:39, "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmu...@arjam.net> wrote:
> Kevin Anderson wrote: >> >> funding - the licence fee. Commercial newspapers are finding their >> readership and advertising decline. Unless the licence fee were extended >> to a public service newspaper (highly unlikely), the BBC doesn't provide >> that much of a model that could easily be transferred to newspapers. > > I think that news.bbc.co.uk is already a public service newspaper - > albeit one without a print edition. Which made me think back to last November when the BBC Trust said: ³Our decision today to refuse permission for local video means that local newspapers and other commercial media can invest in their online services² .. and wonder what Mr Shirky would make of that. Gavin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
