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The Educational Character of Public Service Broadcasting

From Cultural Enrichment to Knowledge Society

Bernie Grummell

Departments of Education and Adult and Community Education, Education House, North Campus, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland, Bernie.Grummell{at}nuim.ie

{blacksquare} A gradual erosion of the general principles of public service broadcasting has left a system increasingly susceptible to economic and political interests in the neoliberal marketplace. Education has a vital, but often overlooked role to play in the maintenance of public communication, as this case study of Irish broadcasting reveals. Education is located on the cusp of tensions between the social and political objectives of public service broadcasting and the economic reality in which it finds itself operating. Documentary and qualitative interviews reveal how education seeks to resolve these tensions, and the ambivalent consequences for public service broadcasting. {blacksquare}

Key Words: education • knowledge society • Ireland • public service broadcasting

European Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, No. 3, 267-285 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0267323109336756
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