Channel 4 is 40 today. The Thatcher Government created it in order to give a platform to minority interests, and was aghast at the programmes that ensued, with Norman Tebbit bewailing that it was supposed to have covered "golf, sailing and fishing".
The Government wants to privatise the Channel Four Television Corporation, so Elon Musk should consider a bid of one billion pounds, including a commitment to maintain its public service remit, itself including both Channel 4 News and the Paralympics.
He should promise that, while the channels themselves would remain free-to-air, everyone who signed up online for free, or who paid a very small subscription to do it by post, would be entitled to elect the members of an Editorial Board, with each of us voting for one self-nominated candidate, and with the highest scoring 14 being elected for a four-year term, provided that all decisions would then require the assent of a Chair appointed for such a term by Musk himself.
Twitter has just compelled the White House to delete a tweet that suggested that Joe Biden had been responsible for an increase in Social Security pursuant to a law from 1972. Let's be having some of that.
George Galloway tweeted a link to this.
ReplyDeleteI had wondered how it had been quite such a big hit. In that case, then do not be surprised if negotiations were already ongoing. George gets around.
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