What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of publicly funded

What Are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Publicly Funded Broadcasting?

What is Publicly Funded Broadcasting?

"BROADCASTING is the practice of creating audio and video program content and distributing it to the mass audiences of radio, television and Internet media."

Advantages

Disadvantages

• Publicly funded
• Not accountable to the people
• Creates controversy

• Provides diversity in programming
• Educates the public
• Reaches large amounts of people
• Strengthens identities
• Acts as a cultural ambassador
• Increases awareness of and access to electronic communication
• Subsidizes and stimulates creativity and innovation
• Provides balanced, accountable, accurate information
• Provides a respite from ads

Provides Diversity in Programming

• Debate between "variety" and "diversity"
• Variety is the result of competition
• Diversity is the result of conscious decision

Reaches Large Amounts of People

Increases Awareness of and Access to Electronic Communication

Publicly Funded

Is publicly funded broadcasting worth it?

Ensures the all people are served

• Building infrastructure
• Campaigns to increase awareness
• Digital Switchover Help Scheme

• Children, minorities, etc.

• For the public
• License fees
• Taxation
• For the public corporation
• Corporate/commercial sponsorship

Strengthens Identities

Creates Controversy

Educates the Public

• Generational, Cultural, Regional, and National

Acts as a Cultural Ambassador

• Educated and informed public is vital to democracy
• Diverse Issues
• In-depth coverage

A) Government Influence

B) Standards of Objectivity and Balance

C) Market Forces

Not Accountable to the People

Subsidizes and Stimulates Creativity and Innovation

Question: Is it possible to have enforceable standards of objectivity and balance?

Question: Is the goal of public broadcasting an obsolete and paternalistic reason to maintain a huge publicly-funded bureaucracy?

• BCC- accountable to the BBC Trust and the Queen (Trust), Parliament (£££), OFCOM, Home Secretary (Charter)
• NPR/PBS- accountable to Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), Congress ($$$), and the President (Board)

• Opportunity to fail
• Patron of creativity
• Programming
• Industry
• "Primes the pump"
• Provides "seed money"

Question: Does publicly-funded broadcasting present citizens a choice in what they watch/hear? Should it?

Question: The assured flow of money from the public allows public broadcasting to innovate and espouse unpopular opinions, but the use of this money isn't regulated by the public. Is this an acceptable trade-off?

Thank-you for listening!

Provides Balanced, Accountable, Accurate Service

• Monitored/Strict standards
• Accountable to government
• No need to sensational

Photo Citations*

Provides Respite from Ads

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*See also: Works Consulted

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