The fate of public service broadcasting was transmuted into an existential threat to British culture, politics, and prosperity at the RTS Cambridge Convention this week.
“This country is staring down two alternative paths,” said Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy in a keynote to the Royal Television Society (RTS). “We can fall apart or we can rise together. We can drift into a future where only some of us can be seen and heard or we can choose to build a society that is inclusive enough to respect – and civilised enough to embrace – different debates and dissent without being destroyed by either.”
Introducing the two-day conference, BBC Director General Tim Davie said ...
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