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| | Public Service Broadcasting – Its Special Responsibilities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | While private, that is, for-profit, broadcasting has a role to play in the public sphere, it is important to recognize that, in essence, the fundamental goal of for-profit broadcasters is to deliver eyeballs and eardrums to advertisers. |
 | | Where public service broadcasting is weak, it is an indicator of lower participation by citizens in shaping the forces that influence their lives. |
 | | Along with other measures of democratic participation, such as voter turnout, a strong public service broadcasting system is a buttress and stimulator of citizenship, as well as a counter-weight to the natural tendency of governments to age in the direction of autocracy, complacency and corruption. |
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