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John Reith tries to broadcast a Royal Wedding, invents the Radio Times and turns down a pay rise on general principles.

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Stuart Kenny

That sentence on the newspapers opinions on the BBC varying from wary to outright hostile, sounds very familiar, even now. Only there's loads of other media outlets, and the likes of papers ran by Murdoch, Rothermere, Desmond and the Barclay's, still attack the BBC, only because of the licence fee and for other trivial reasons. Back then, it was fearful xenophobia, as they were scared the new medium would kill off newspapers. Nearly 100 years later, the BBC didn't kill off newspapers, but newspapers are being killed off by outside progress, social media and the like.