A rare medium
Tell a broadcaster today that they ought to be guided by standards first created in 1922 by John Reith - and in the context of the stuffy old "Aunty" BBC, what's more - and they'll likely scoff in derision. Yet engage them on the state of broadcast journalism today and you'll probably hear a lament of shrinking newsrooms, increasing centralisation of news gathering (and a consequent loss of the ability to focus on the myriad of local issues which are important to people), an