10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REITHIAN»
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Reithian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Can the Market Deliver?: Funding Public Service Television ...
First, 1 do not mean that Reithian broadcasting will be entirely absent from a free
market system. lf the BB< ! did not exist, there would still be a great deal of
Reithian television produced by 1TY. Channel 4, the excellent Sky News and
other ...
2
Radio Modernism: Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938
In contrast to those of many other modernist writers who participated in
broadcasting during the Reithian era and into the second World War years —
and certainly in contrast to the other writers examined in this book — Eliot's
cultural and ...
3
An Introductory History of British Broadcasting
Yet thecaseit made toPilkington owed its success tothe skill with
whichitequivocated betweenthe olderand newer notions of 'public service'–
between the Reithian idea of universal provision on a single channel and the
postReithian ideaof ...
4
Narrating Media History
For a start, changes in social relations and processes from the end of the war to
the 1960s challenged the arrogance and elitism of the BBC and 'brought into
question the authority of the whole hierarchy of values on which the Reithian
system ...
5
Politics and Popular Culture
He actually is very Reithian . . .' As Stephen Barnard (1989: 156) explains, Peel
embodies 'the Reithian principles of encouraging audiences to discriminate in
their listening and of bringing the more difficult and demanding to their attention'.
6
The Politics of the Police
neo-reithian–. revisionist. synthesis. All historians of the emergence of
professional policing in Britain have shown that it was surrounded by acute
political conflict. The orthodox historians were clearly wrong in their lack of
appreciation of the ...
7
Entertaining Television: The BBC and Popular Television ...
The book is iconclastic, percipient and grounded in archival research, and will be of use to anyone studying television history.
8
The Media and Cultural Production
The Reithian model was born of early twentiethcentury intellectual-elite fears that
the newly enfranchised British masses would 'lower standards'. Hence the BBC
implemented an Arnoldianvision of cultural intervention to educate and 'civilize' ...
9
Ordinary Lifestyles: Popular Media, Consumption And Taste
Indeed, we can argue that contemporary lifestyle television programmes are
caught in what we might call this 'Reithian Bargain'. They have a heritage of
negotiating the 'inform, educate, entertain' mantra of the BBC's paternalistic
public ...
Bell, David, Hollows, Joanne, 2005
10
Countryside Planning: The First Half Century
Such an approach can also use education and example, based on the Reithian
belief which dominated the BBC until recently, namely that public servants have a
duty to educate as well as to entertain, and that a basic duty of public life was to ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REITHIAN»
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Broadcaster faces wrath of the Tories
... be that the BBC should confine itself to uplifting Reithian television leaving the popular to commercial TV. That's not the view of audiences, two-thirds of whom ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
Radio 3 Controller Alan Davey on how he's bringing the Proms to …
He talks fondly of the values of the old Third Programme, Radio 3's Reithian precursor, and has already taken measures to police the chit-chat. But more ... «Ham&High, Jul 15»
The BBC's future: what the national newspapers, predictably, say
The BBC's original Reithian values called for it to be impartial, have a strong moral purpose, to speak to the nation and to educate as well as entertain. Much of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Is the BBC living up to its Reithian ideals with the launch of the Micro …
Hall talked of the Micro:bit living up to the corporation's Reithian mission to 'inform, educate and entertain' and he described it as an 'echo' of the successful BBC ... «New Electronics, Jul 15»
Chris Evans quits, Wimbledon cut and a shrunken website – how the …
... Media and Sport, which will set the guidelines for negotiations over a new ten-year Royal Charter, promises to return the BBC to its Reithian roots, dispensing ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Competition will force the BBC to save itself – or die
But the central message is moral and intellectual seriousness: the attempt to maintain Reithian values while the corporation was literally under fire. Until recently ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
Shadow culture secretary fears 'sustained attack' on BBC
... during charter renewal negotiations a Tory majority government will attempt to undermine the BBC's duty to serve all audiences and uphold Reithian values. «Broadcast, May 15»
Reithian values at odds with BBC Midlands output
It was, by any standards, an extraordinary piece of broadcasting, even in these turbulent times for the BBC. There he was, John Humphrys, the undisputed king ... «Birmingham Post, May 15»
MPs 'deeply concerned' by BBC EU coverage
A group of MPs has expressed deep concern at the BBC's approach to the EU, arguing that its coverage fails to demonstrate impartiality and other Reithian ... «Broadcast, Mar 15»
Why BBC Arabic is booming
... the programmes would always be 'reliable, accurate and interesting', values that have become virtually cast in stone as the Reithian model of broadcasting. «Spectator.co.uk, Feb 15»
