This is the author’s version of a work that was submitted/accepted for pub-lication in the following source:

The debates within the public [broadcasting] service fraternity have been distinctly nervous, defensive, and often confused as it has singularly failed to define or redefine, the idea of the public good, the public interest, the common weal in communications at the moment when technology is seen, rightly or wrongly, to be acting on, rather than being guided by social development and social needs. It seems to have been, and to remain, inordinately difficulty to examine the social worth and purpose of public service broadcasting without foundering on the rocks of “tradition”, a code word for something which is not quite relevant, devoid of contemporary use and purpose, or care. Michael Tracey,