ABSTRACT
A core concern that has remained at the center of the public service broadcasting ethos has been the ways in which ideas, information, and debate can contribute to promote progress, assisting in national development and improving the health of a particular democracy. One of the key purposes of my book Media and Politics in Latin America (2012) was to precisely examine the state and the challenges posed to public service broadcasting (PSB) and the public media at the turn of the twenty-first century in Brazil and in Latin America in a comparative perspective to the ‘crisis’ of identity of public communication structures across Europe and in the UK due to various factors including increasing media commercialization, expansion of new technologies, and fragmentation of audiences.
