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[[Image:Social Affairs Unit - Scrap the BBC.jpg|right|thumb|[[Richard D North|Richard D North's]] 2005 polemic ''Scrap the BBC!'']] | [[Image:Social Affairs Unit - Scrap the BBC.jpg|right|thumb|[[Richard D North|Richard D North's]] 2005 polemic ''Scrap the BBC!'']] | ||
| − | Whilst other right-wing think-tanks like the [[BBC:Institute of Economic Affairs|Institute of Economic Affairs]] and the [[BBC: Adam Smith Institute|Adam Smith Institute]] heavily criticised the [[BBC]] | + | Whilst other right-wing think-tanks like the [[BBC:Institute of Economic Affairs|Institute of Economic Affairs]] and the [[BBC: Adam Smith Institute|Adam Smith Institute]] heavily criticised the [[BBC]] from the beginning of the Thatcher era, the [[Social Affairs Unit]] does not appear to have shown much interest in broadcasting until relatively recently. In 2005 it published a 219 page polemic ''Scrap the BBC!: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free''. |
| − | ''Scrap the BBC!'' was written by the right-wing journalist and commentator [[Richard D North]], SAU’s arts reviewer who was also a media fellow at the [[Institute of Economic Affairs]]. <ref>[[Media:Richarddnorth long CV.pdf|PDF Copy]] of <http://richarddnorth.com/archive/about/RDN_cv_long.asp> created 14 January 2009</ref> It featured on its covered a tomb stone with an epitaph reading, ‘STATE BROADCASTING 1926-2015 R.I.P.’. | + | ''Scrap the BBC!'' was written by the right-wing journalist and commentator [[Richard D North]], SAU’s arts reviewer who was also a media fellow at the [[BBC:Institute of Economic Affairs|Institute of Economic Affairs]]. <ref>[[Media:Richarddnorth long CV.pdf|PDF Copy]] of <http://richarddnorth.com/archive/about/RDN_cv_long.asp> created 14 January 2009</ref> It featured on its covered a tomb stone with an epitaph reading, ‘STATE BROADCASTING 1926-2015 R.I.P.’. |
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Revision as of 15:09, 23 January 2010
The Social Affairs Unit was founded as a charity in 1980 by Julius Gould and Digby Anderson with active encouragement from the Institute of Economic Affairs. Its early publications attacked social security and it later developed more of a preoccupation with law and order, social decline and family values.
Social Affairs Unit and the BBC
Whilst other right-wing think-tanks like the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute heavily criticised the BBC from the beginning of the Thatcher era, the Social Affairs Unit does not appear to have shown much interest in broadcasting until relatively recently. In 2005 it published a 219 page polemic Scrap the BBC!: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free.
Scrap the BBC! was written by the right-wing journalist and commentator Richard D North, SAU’s arts reviewer who was also a media fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs. [1] It featured on its covered a tomb stone with an epitaph reading, ‘STATE BROADCASTING 1926-2015 R.I.P.’.
Notes
- ↑ PDF Copy of <http://richarddnorth.com/archive/about/RDN_cv_long.asp> created 14 January 2009
