The Cairncross review into the media wants public-interest news outlets to benefit from tax reliefs. That’s not radical enough
A flourishing, diverse media is essential to a functioning democracy. We have neither. An already broken model faces an existential crisis. Back in 1948, the media mogul Lord Beaverbrook told a royal commission on the press that he ran the Daily Express “purely for the purpose of making propaganda and with no other object ... I look at it as a purely propagandist project.” Today, most of the British press remains the plaything of media moguls who profit from a broken status quo.
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