Spinwatch Article on Public Commissioning

Spinwatch has just published an article of mine on public commissioning. I am now working on summary of the government's plans for public service content in the Digital Britain white paper. The opportunity exists for us to change the economy of knowledge in this country to an unprecedented extent.

There is a little bit of urgency in all this, mind you. The danger is that the Conservatives are going to get in and use public money to subsidise the activities of US-style local TV/media groups. I am trying to figure out what they have in mind at the moment, but it won't be the well-intentioned transparency and accountability liberal bean feast that the government seems to have in mind, let alone the hearts-and-flowers, democratic-to-its-core be-in that I have put on the table.