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Thursday March 3, 2005
MediaGuardian.co.uk
THE GUARDIAN
Verdict: “workable framework”
Credit is due to Tessa Jowell for fighting off “radical proposals from Lords Birt and Burns which could have disrupted the stability the BBC desperately needs as it navigates through the digital and broadband revolutions”. The green paper offered “few surprises” because the BBC has already anticipated the changes it thought would be demanded. “The outcome is a workable framework for the BBC that broadly reflects the wishes of the country at large rather than those of a couple of peers.” However, the BBC is warned against “cutting down its populist

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