Public Service Broadcasting & Modern Public Life

Assigned for Media & Society. Not a big fan of this article. But yeah.

Bibliographic

 * Scannell, Paddy. "Public Service Broadcasting & Modern Public Life." Media Culture Society April 1989 vol. 11 no. 2 135-166.

Content

 * "I wish to argue for broadcasting in its present form, as a public good that has unobstrusively contributed to the democratization of everyday life, in public and private contexts"
 * Consider the FA Cup Final, the Grand National or Wimbeldon... these events became, and have remained, punctual moments in a shared national life. Broadcasting created, in effect, a new national calendar of public events" (323)
 * Really BBC specific
 * BBC challenge from ITV made the BBC better (327)

Part VII

 * Really takes media theory to task. Particulary Hall and Barthes.
 * But not as compelling as it is intentional provocative.

From readings At Cambridge