Interesting to see that Will Hutton regards the BBC as a paternalist safeguard against ‘mob rule’, or rather against “populist government by the mob”. He really takes seriously the idea that advertising-driven broadcasters merely give people what they want, and that to do so is dangerous. To give people what they ask for is to invite a debasement of public life, a degeneration of culture and - ironically - a degradation of democracy….
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