Reithian

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1. Of or relating to John Reith, 1st Baron Reith (1889–1971), Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
2. Having patrician beliefs about broadcasting; especially, holding to the principle that the BBC, or television in general, should inform, educate and entertain.

   Surprisingly, though, the white paper contained more old-fashioned Reithian values than had been predicted.

   2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe, Demos, →ISBN

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   The old purist (Reithian) PSB model seems unlikely to survive. However, the Germans may possibly have found a model offering PSB a survival route in the form of the 1987 State Treaty on the Reorganization of Broadcasting.

   2001 August 9, P. Eric Louw, The Media and Cultural Production, SAGE, →ISBN, page 87

   The Reithian concept was to some extent adopted by PBS. But, as Hughes signaled in the mid-1990s, PBS's dependence on corporate sponsorship had affected its public service character, making its programming "apolitical or carefully middle-of-the-road".

   2014 March 26, Ray B. Browne, Ben Urish, The Dynamics of Interconnections in Popular Culture(s), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 238