... quality programmes that created and maintained an informed electorate. As Tracey suggests in his book "The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting" "through the diversity and quality of its programmes - we can be better than we are: better served, better amused, better informed, and thus, better citizens." (1998, p.19). Broadcasters would also have a responsibility to express the majority views of society, "the middle ground upon which all men of good sense could agree" (Curran, J P.296). At the same time, it would also allow minority voices to be heard. Reithian ideas still form the main purpose of the BBC today. As outlined on their website, the BBC aims "to enrich people's lives with great programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain." (2004) Public Service Broadcasting is hard to define, although it has often been interpreted as having four meanings; good television, worthy television, television that would ...

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