Public Service Broadcasting

Question 1

What do pluralists point out

Answer 1

• a significant share of the media market in Britain is taken up by public service broadcasters
• I.e. media outlets controlled by the state (BBC)

Question 2

What’s the BBC’s legal obligation

Answer 2

To inform, educate and To ensure that all programming is diverse

Question 3

Pluralists argue that public service broadcasters are

Answer 3

Impartial and objective, and balances out any potential bias in the private sector

Question 4

Pluralists note that the power

Answer 4

Of media owners is also restricted by state, or government, controls
- e.g OfCom