Will I ever become the master of communication ?

So this week after we did our presentations we tackled the subject of mass media in much more detail. After our previous lecture with taught about the wide range of services the BBC offers we moved on to how it and other terrestrial channels like Channel 4 came about. Essentially channels like ITV and Channel 4 were born for the simple desire of more choices from the neglected audiences strangely thanks to report done every ten years from the BBC. If you think about it seems to be quite true. Overall the BBC's content has always been deemed quite safe and most entertainment products to have moral message encoded somewhere, like Waterloo road demonstrating the perils facing teens in these so called strange times. Now compare it to something like Channel 4 (which is strangely funded via adverts and interests groups) which produces the insanely funny Intbetweeners which displays the more awkward and if done in a more serious light like Skins and controversial side of being a spotty faced teen it would never make it on to BBC thanks to it's Government influence of purity. On a side note it didn't surprise me that Channel 5 started out as a low budget alternative thanks to the amount of US import shows and pretty dull documentaries, but it did surprise me that they didn't have to produce any regional programming.

So onto what else I learnt today was again that recurring theme of how helpful technology like plans after World War 2 were used for tourism that the radio boom was created thanks to the Military using Marconi to create Morse codes for ships to be then commercialised and lead to the wireless radio, just another example of histories leap from military technology to commercial application.

So now I’ll produce my final shock. Looking at radio control models in other countries we found this:
UK radio: Public service (not such a shock)
US radio: Commercial interests (not surprising from a wealthy country)
Russian radio: Government controlled (This really shocked me, because the last time I checked Russia was a democracy and I though controlling media outlets to such a puppetry degree would be surely in breach of some kind of International law. It's not like the BBC who've only had the government control their content during Thatcher’s reign when their anti Thatcher programming was considered un-British, but even then they were given space to brief and report the facts.)