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The Present Combination Of Corporate Or Commercial Control Theoretically Answerable To Politically Appointed Boards Of Governors Is Not In Any Sense A Democratic Enough Procedure To Control The Power The Broadcasters Have.

I See Myself As An Old Man And An Unqualified Teacher To The Nation. I Think Being A Teacher Is Probably The Most Important Thing You Can Be In Politics.

I Sometimes Wish The Trade Unionists Who Work In The Mass Media, Those Who Are Writers And Broadcasters And Secretaries And Printers And Lift Operators Of Thomson House Would Remember That They Too Are Members Of Our Working Class Movement And Have A Responsibility To See That What Is Said About Us Is True.

I Try To Operate On Two Unconnected Levels. One On The Practical Level Of Action In Which I Am Extremely Cautious And Conservative. The Second Is The Realm Of Ideas Where I Try To Be Very Free

If One Meets A Powerful Person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin Or Bill Gates - Ask Them Five Questions: 'what Power Have You Got? Where Did You Get It From? In Whose Interests Do You Exercise It? To Whom Are You Accountable? And How Can We Get Rid Of You?' If You Cannot Get Rid Of The People Who Govern You, You Do Not Live In A Democratic System.