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Regaining the Initative For Public Service Media
No full textPublic service media is today challenged on every front. Publics and politicians see the commercial approach as the ‘normal’ way to organise broadcasting. There are strong pressures to downsize PSM organisations, to limit investment options, to restrict online and digital operations, to narrow remits to genres and for audiences that are not commercially attractive, and for increasingly intrusive assessment procedures. The principles no longer resonate very widely and there is growing criticism about a decline in distinctiveness. Even among traditional allies, support is flagging and skepticism is growing. In Europe the institution has not yet presented a coherent and convincing strategy attuned for relevance in the 21st century. PSM has lost or is in danger of losing the initiative. At the same time, there are promising efforts to develop PSM in regions and countries lacking a domestic history with PSB – to gain the initiative for building PSM. This 5th RIPE Reader incorporates a wider purview as an outgrowth of proceedings from the RIPE@2010 conference that convened in London 8-11 September to address the theme, Public Service Media After the Recession. The book is divided into four sections, reflecting the varied and distinctive narratives of PSB around the world. CONTENT: Preface Gregory Ferrell Lowe, Jeanette Steemers; Regaining the Initiative for Public Service Media I. Policy Case-Making in the Heartland of PSB Robert G. Picard; The Changing Nature of Political Case-Making for Public Service Broadcasters Lars Nord; Losing the Battle, Winning the War. Public Service Media Debate in Scandinavia 2000-2010 Peter Goodwin; High Noon. The BBC Meets “The West’s Most Daring Government” II. Responding to Environmental Pressures Karen Donders, Caroline Pauwels: Ex Ante Tests. A Means to an End or the End for Public Service Media? David A. L. Levy PSB Policymaking in Comparative Perspective. The BBC and France Télévisions Peter Lunt, Sonia Livingstone, Benedetta Brevini Changing Regimes of Regulation. Implications For Public Service Broadcasting III. Taking the Initiative at the Frontiers of PSM Sally Broughton Micova; Born into Crisis. Public Service Broadcasters in South East Europe Yik Chan Chin, Matthew D. Johnson; Public Cultural Service. New Paradigms of Broadcasting Policy and Reform in the People’s Republic of China Julio Juárez-Gámiz, Gregory Ferrell Lowe;Breaking the Mold with New Media. Making Way for a Public Service Provider in Mexico? Naomi Sakr; Public Service Initiatives in Arab Media Today IV. Public Service Media in Practice Steven Barnett; Broadcast Journalism and Impartiality in the Digital Age. Six Fallacies and a Counter-Factual James Bennett, Paul Kerr; A 360° Public Service Sector? The Role of Independent Production in the UK’s Public Service Broadcasting Landscape Piet Bakker; Expectations, Experiences & Exceptions. Promises and Realities of Participation on Websites The Author
Current affairs in British public service broadcasting : challenges and opportunities
No full textThis chapter looks at the challenges and opportunities of current affairs in British public service broadcastin
The Rhetoric of Landscape in Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Brill via the ISBN in this recordAnalytical and Supporting Studies. Proceedings of the 13th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Rome, 17-20 September 2014)Series:
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, Volume: 150In this paper I want to take you on a walk through a garden. It is, to be sure, an imaginary garden; nevertheless, it bears a significance which extends beyond itself. Some of this significance concerns words and texts: for as we shall see, the garden is, amongst other things, a ‘garden of rhetoric’. The garden in question appears in the Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on the Song of Songs.[...
An Evening with Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory, Civil Rights Activist, Nutritionist, Comedian, and Author
No full textGregory, Richard Claxton “Dick” (Born, October 12, 1932, St. Louis, Mo.), African American comedian and civil rights activist whose social satire changed the way white Americans perceived African American comedians since he first performed in public. Gregory’s autobiography, Nigger, was published in 1963 prior to The assassination of President Kennedy, and became the number one best-selling book in America. Over the decades it has sold in excess of seven million copies. His choice for the title was explained in the forward, where Dick Gregory wrote a note to his mother. “Whenever you hear the word ‘Nigger’,” he said, “you’ll know their advertising my book.” In 1984 he founded Health Enterprises, Inc., a company that distributed weight loss products. In 1987 Gregory introduced the Slim-Safe Bahamian Diet, a powdered diet mix, which was immensely profitable. Economic losses caused in part by conflicts with his business partners led to his eviction from his home in 1992. Gregory remained active, however, and in 1996 returned to the stage in his critically acclaimed one-man show, Dick Gregory Live! The reviews of Gregory’s show compared him to the greatest stand-ups in the history of Broadway
“Judge Me Gently”: Reflections on the Religious Life of John Milton Gregory, 1822–1898
No full text John Milton Gregory is familiar to many Christian educators through his 19th-century publication, The Seven Laws of Teaching. For most readers of this important book, little is known about the author himself. This article explores the religious life and theological foundations of John Milton Gregory, who was both author of The Seven Laws of Teaching and founding president of the University of Illinois. Utilizing his spiritual diaries preserved in his daughter's biography of her father and archival sources from the University of Illinois, this essay offers a theological and spiritual understanding of this important historical figure. </jats:p
David Gregory
No full textPhotograph - David Gregory, member of the Book Sub-Committee, part of the Town of Athabasca 75th Anniversary Committee, Athabasca, Alberta. The Book Sub Committee produced the book "Athabasca Landing: An Illustrated History
Public service versus private interest : a comparative analysis of the Australian and British debates
No full textThis paper will compare and evaluate the effectiveness of commercial media lobbying and advocacy against public service media in two countries, the United Kingdom and Australia. The paper will focus empirically on the commercial media coverage of public service media issues in these countries (relating to the BBC and ABC respectively) over the period since the election of the Conservative-led Coalition in Britain in June 2010, and the election of the Gillard government in Australia in August 2010. Reference will be made to preceding periods as relevant to an understanding of the current environment.\ud
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In both countries the main commercial media rival to public service media is News Corp and its associated organisations – News Ltd and Sky News in Australia, and News International and BSkyB in the UK.\ud
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The paper will examine with analysis of print and online news and commentary content how News Corp outlets have reported and commented on the activities and plans of public service media as the latter have developed and extended their presence on digital TV and online platforms. It will also consider the responses of the ABC and BBC to these interventions. It will consider, thirdly, the responses of Australian and British governments to these debates, and the policy outcomes. This section of the paper will seek to evaluate the trajectory of the policy-public-private dynamic in recent years, and to draw conclusions as to the future direction of policy.\ud
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Particular attention will be devoted to recent key moments in this unfolding dialogue. In Britain, debates around the efforts of News Corp to take over 100% of BSkyB, both before and after the breaking of the phone-hacking scandal in July 2011; in Australia, the debate around the National Broadband Network and the competitive tender process for ABC World, that country’s public service transnational broadcaster; and other key moments where rivalry between News Corp companies and public service media became mainstream news stories provoking wider public debate.\ud
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The paper will conclude with recommendations as to how public service media organisations might engage constructively with commercial organisations in the future, including News Corp, and taking into account emerging technological and financial challenges to traditional rationales for public service provision
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