Democracy and the media

Here, at Adrian Monck’s blog, is Jeremy Greenstock’s thought-provoking roundup of the recent Ditchley conference on the media and democracy. A couple of paragraphs from the conclusion (but do read the rest):

In short, we found ourselves concluding that there were still huge strengths in the media industry, though more in the modern than in the traditional forms of it, and there was still dynamism in the evolution of democracy.

It was politics that had not yet found the right balance: between government and individual, between plurality and democratic security, between freedom of choice and education on the constraints. That, we felt, was where the next concentration of effort should lie.