Perhaps, one of the benefits of having a state-run media agency – which competes, however unfairly, with private media agencies – is the possibility of accountability, not to shareholders but voters.
The BBC:
Ex-director general Greg Dyke says the BBC is part of a “conspiracy” preventing the “radical changes” needed to UK democracy…
Dyke: “The evidence that our democracy is failing is overwhelming and yet those with the biggest interest in sustaining the current system – the Westminster village, the media and particularly the political parties, including this one – are the groups most in denial about what is really happening to our democracy.”
(Obviously, a state-run media agency is not the same as the prime minister outright owning most of the media as is the case in Italy.)