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Reithian
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English
Etymology
From en Reith ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889–1971), Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
Having patrician beliefs about broadcasting; especially, holding to the principle that the BBC, or television in general, should inform, educate and entertain.
en 2001-08-09 P. Eric Louw The Media and Cultural Production SAGE 9780761965831 87 The old purist (Reithian) PSB model seems unlikely to survive. However, the Germans may possibly have found a model offering PSB a survival route in the form of the 1987 State Treaty on the Reorganization of Broadcasting.
en 2001 Tom Bentley Daniel Stedman Jones The Moral Universe Demos 9781841800240 Surprisingly, though, the white paper contained more old-fashioned Reithian values than had been predicted.
en 2014-03-26 Ray B. Browne Ben Urish The Dynamics of Interconnections in Popular Culture(s) Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443858649 238 The Reithian concept was to some extent adopted by PBS. But, as Hughes signaled in the mid-1990s, PBS's dependence on corporate sponsorship had affected its public service character, making its programming "apolitical or carefully middle-of-the-road".
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