Film And The Other Creative Industries Are

Newspapers And Their Editors Have To Become As Accountable As The Rest Of Us - They Are Not 'a Special Case,' And They Have Only Themselves To Blame For Having Lost The Argument For 'exceptionalism' - And With It The Right To 'self-regulation.

There Is No Education System In The World - None At All - That's Better Than Its Average Teacher.

At Least In The West, Politicians, Corporations And Media Moguls Can No Longer Take For Granted Their Power To Control The Public Discourse - And Have It Go Unchallenged.

In The U.k., The History Of Regulation, Certainly Regulation Of The Media, Is One In Which, Time And Again, Successive Governments Lacked The 'bottle' To Enforce The Powers That Were Available To Them.

I'm Not Naive Enough To Pretend That On Its Own Cinema Can Capture The Very Soul Of Significant Social And Cultural Problems.