Bill Thompson thinks that it was cooked up in a smoke-free room, more like.
Along with the OfCOM Public Service Broadcasting review, published recently, these issues are of huge importance.
I say all of this as a prelude to urging you to visit Charlie Beckett’s excellent Polis blog where you can find an ongoing discussion of journalism – what it’s values need to be and how it can remain sustainable in a changing economy.
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
…and I’d urge you to comment on the report itself at http://writetoreply.org/digitalbritain/