The full text of Mark Thompson's speech about the popularity of the BBC abroad (and the continuing need for Foreign Office funding) is now available here.
I'd highlight this paragraph. I'm really not sure he made the case for "self-evidently".
"There is – self-evidently – a market failure in much of the news that the world needs. It is this failure that the Grant-in-Aid seeks to address and as I have argued tonight, it is just as important in 2010 as it was during the Second World War and Cold War eras"
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