And ditto their research on High Definition and use of spectrum, where
they at least had the grace to redo the research.
There is a website called ofcomwatch which someone told me started as a
serious scrutiny exercise and was then effectively embraced by ofcom
itself. Is there a case for the academy setting up something similar but
serious?
And of course their PSB research demonstrated that the public thinks
that Plurality is a Jolly Good Thing. Hence we need C4 to cover all
programming areas to challenge the BBC, hence C4 needs public funds,
hence the licence fee should be top-sliced. I have been told on fairly
good authority that this recommendation is probably a done deal between
c4 and ofcom, even though disbursement of the licence fee is a matter
for government and primary legislation.
And really good BJR piece Julian, which was mentioned in dispatches at
the last BJR editorial meeting!
I'm attaching for info the text of my presentation at last week's
LSE/Ofcom seminar on the four "models" for funding psb. I was counsel
for the Evolution model, though given the leaks it seems that their
report is already written.
Steve
Prof Steven Barnett
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Subject: Re: Ofcom and News on ITV
Thanks Julian - very interesting.
Exactly the same contradiction was glaringly evident in Ocfom's Review
of
the Television Production Sector a couple of years ago: evidence,
argument,
analysis, and than recommendations that failed to respond to any of it!
I
can detail if anyone is interested (and wrote about it at the time)...
best,
Georgina.
On Sep 15 2008, Julian Petley wrote:
>Dear All,
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>I thought the following might be of interest. It was partly sparked off
>by something which Steve B wrote in a Guardian blog, and partly because
>ever since the publication of Ofcom's New News, Future News I've become
>fascinated by how Ofcom uses its own research to reach policy
>conclusions which seem to me to be the opposite of what the research
>actually suggests!
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>http://www.bjr.org.uk/data/2008/no3_petley
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>All the best, Julian.
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>Professor Julian Petley,
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>School of Arts,
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