New Knowledge Politics pamphlet

I write as we prepare to finally launch Knowledge Politics' first publication, an e-pamphlet written by the Polish academic and until recently the chair of the mass media committee at the Council of Europe, Karol Jakubowicz. We would like to think Karol for his efforts in doing this - very much appreciated, and we'll do our best to make sure the message gets heard. And thanks also to Andrew Gwynne, an old friend of Knowledge Politics' from Reddish, Stockport, aka the motherland, for providing the foreword. I could also thank our Head of Research for his introductory piece, and I would love to do so but I haven't actually read that bit yet so I can't really comment.

What I have read, though, is probably the only sustained, coherent, and wide-ranging account of public service broadcasting's future coming out of British political debate I can remember reading in recent years. Politicians pay lip service to the concept, but no one outside those intimately involved really takes the issue seriously. Hopefully, we can start to change that now, because we might just regret losing what we have if we are not careful.

CB