ABSTRACT
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest public service broadcaster (PSB) in the world. By accident of language and dint of graft, it is also the most important and influential. Over 80 years, it has won a deserved reputation for independence. In the statistical analysis of Chapter 2, the BBC counted as but one case amongst others; it no more determined the validity of the theory than did the public broadcasters of Slovakia or New Zealand. Yet any theory of PSB independence which does not hold when applied to the BBC will ultimately be unconvincing even if valid.
