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and Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined by Tom Mills.

We'll be talking about the sorry state of the British media,

the Labour Party's proposed

media reforms, and why it is that the media class is so hostile to the prospect of workplace

democracy.

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Tom Mills is a lecturer in sociology at Aston University.

He's the author of the BBC, Myth of a Public Service, published by Verso Books.

And together with Dan Hind, he's the co-presenter of the excellent media democracy podcast,

which I strongly recommend checking out.

His academic work is concerned with the ideas and practices of powerful groups and actors

and the social networks that influence policymaking.

So in his alternative McTaggart lecture on the media that Jeremy Corbyn gave last month,

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