Tag Archives: BECTU

Under our noses

One of the lessons of Mancur Olson's 'Logic of Collective Action' is that of 'forgotten groups' - the fate of those that don't have the resources to get stuck into a battle of wills over a particular area of public policy.
You can have a policy area in which there are a number of options. At [...]

Time to safeguard public service broadcasting

As Clay Shirky has put it so memorably, for the newspaper industry, the glaciers have arrived.
This has provided a useful backdrop for some spectacular special pleading from media owners.
The need to rescue journalism has, for industry lobbyists, been rapidly translated into a need to feather-bed dying industries that have shown no interest in the promotion [...]