it's good to hear about progress on Pacifica!
but I want to amplify my previous point. (1) the reason why the BBC is so
good (compared to the dreadful US media at least) is because of the
independent development of a Labour Party there, which broke up the
capitalist/government bloc a little. (2) I would expect that the BBC would
decline in quality or be privatized (and thus decline in quality) due to
the neoliberal Blair government, which seems to want to soak the Labour
Party grass-roots in kerosine.
A third point: maybe corporate vs. government is the wrong issue for
another reason. It should be monopoly vs. competitive press. Of course the
powers that be want to prevent competition from workers and the rest of the
potential grass-roots civil society, while monopolizing information to
preserve the state/corporate bloc in power.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
