{"id":1445,"date":"2009-09-20T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2009-09-20T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:15:32","slug":"on-the-benefits-of-a-state-run-media-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/09\/20\/on-the-benefits-of-a-state-run-media-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"On the benefits of a state-run media agency."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps, one of the  benefits of having a state-run media agency \u2013\u00a0which competes, however <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/8227915.stm\">unfairly<\/a>, with private media agencies \u2013\u00a0is the possibility of accountability, not to shareholders but voters.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/8265628.stm\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ex-director general Greg Dyke says the BBC is part of a &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; preventing the &#8220;radical changes&#8221; needed to UK democracy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dyke: &#8220;The evidence that our democracy is failing is overwhelming and yet those with the biggest interest in sustaining the current system &#8211; the Westminster village, the media and particularly the political parties, including this one &#8211; are the groups most in denial about what is really happening to our democracy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Obviously, a state-run media agency is not the same as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews\/idUSLF65063020090915\">the prime minister outright owning<\/a> most of the media as is the case in Italy.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps, one of the benefits of having a state-run media agency \u2013\u00a0which competes, however unfairly, with private media agencies \u2013\u00a0is the possibility of accountability, not to shareholders but voters. The BBC: Ex-director general Greg Dyke says the BBC is part of a &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; preventing the &#8220;radical changes&#8221; needed to UK democracy\u2026 Dyke: &#8220;The evidence that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}