@pluralistic There was also this example of a collision between private companies interests and govt policy for the BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6449619.stm
I knew folks who had worked on Jam, and it was a blow to morale when it was canned, as you can imagine.
We need to get better at steering our public bodies, like the BBC, just as we need to get (much) better at empowering regulators.