Samuel Brittan
Sir Samuel Brittan (born 29 December 1933) has been a columnist with the Financial Times since 1966. [1] He is a committed neoliberal and was tutored by the neoliberal fundamentalist Milton Friedman during the year he spent at Cambridge. [2]
Tom O'Malley notes that Brittan was one of several journalists involved in promoting neoliberal ideas during the 1960s and 1970s who would 'later play an active part in debates over broadcasting and the BBC in the 1980s'. [3] Brittan was appointed to the Committee on Financing the BBC, better known as the Peacock Committee, by his brother, the Home Secretary Leon Brittan. [4]
He was knighted in 1993 for 'services to economic journalism'. [5]
Notes
- ↑ ‘BRITTAN, Sir Samuel’, Who's Who 2009, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2008 [Accessed 9 October 2009]
- ↑ Rose D. Friedman, Two Lucky People: Memoirs (University of Chicago Press, 1999) p.475
- ↑ Tom O'Malley, Closedown?: The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy 1979-92 (London: Pluto Press, 1994) p.17
- ↑ Tom O'Malley, Closedown?: The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy 1979-92 (London: Pluto Press, 1994) p.18
- ↑ Samuel Brittan's website, Profile [Accessed 9 October 2009]
