The Broadcasting Committee has issued its Report and recommends that
at the end of the year the work of the British Broadcasting Company should be taken over by a Commission under Parliament with the Postmaster-General acting as its representative. It is proposed that the change should be made as easy as possible and that the personnel of the B.B.C., to which a handsome tribute of praise is paid, should be retained. It is assumed that broadcasting would always be self- supporting and that the State could draw something from the revenue. It may be objected that here is a new bureaucracy, but it must be remembered that the B.B.C. has had to deal with many interests and that it is probably inadvisable in the long run that these should be dealt with by private persons. The B.B.C., as it is, is State-controlled to some extent. There is only one reasonable attitude for the public in a case like this and that is a willingness to judge by the results.
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