Professor Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, was quoted in Polly Toynbee’s column in The Guardian about the culture secretary’s plan to freeze BBC funding and axe the licence fee.
In the article Polly Toynbee argues how British soft power is being dismantled with the BBC now under threat just as its global reach is bigger than ever. She references a recent lecture by Professor Barnett on the BBC’s centenary and links to the University’s CAMRI blog post on the event.
The article reads: “In the words of the University of Westminster’s Steven Barnett, its global reach is poised to “hit a weekly figure of half a billion people in its centenary year”.”
Read the full article on The Guardian website.
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