Channel 4 privatisation can be stopped a) it's Dorries (terminally useless) b) they want an election in Q2 2023, so time pressure c) Labour could specify new Ofcom regime making investment unattractive ... but... C4s problem is it's content ... 
... C4 News effectively has an audience of one: the regulator. It's superb, probably the greatest news programme in Europe... and it has to be to keep the licence, given the low-rent nature of much of the other content...
... it's no good just defending the channel as is: if we want a high-grade second public broadcaster we need to finance it better - I've always favoured top-slicing the BBC licence fee to do this ... but maybe there are other solutions ...
... this is not just a TV industry crisis: losing C4 News would go a long way towards the Orbanisation of British media... with Global pursuing a generally non-liberal agenda... plus right wing dominance of print ...
... right now there will be ex C4 bosses thinking about a MBO-style bid: don't do it until the option of a political alliance to save and invest in a publicly owned C4 has been tried... Labour plus Welsh and Scottish govts cd stymie investors with a new Ofcom blueprint...
... what you lose if you lose #C4News ... News run by journalists not managers: that's the clear difference between ITN/C4 and BBC - and it's why despite its tiny newsroom C4 keeps setting the agenda. Let's save it and grow it!
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