reith in A Sentence

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    (Fun fact: Reith had no experience with anything related to broadcasting when he applied to manage the BBC).

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    The BBC Reith Lecture 2000 focused on sustainability and was unusual in having a panel rather than a single lecturer.

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    And for that, as the political philosopher Onora O'Neill argued in her 2002 Reith Lectures, we must be able to trust them.

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    Reith was also aware that the broadcasts might be played abroad and felt that a regional accent would be difficult for non-Britain's to understand.

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    Back when the BBC was first launched in 1922, the first General Manager of the corporation, Scottish engineer Sir John Reith, was insistent that the BBC be as formal and quintessentially British as possible, and he created a number of rules towards this end.

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    Traditionally it was thought that these platinum group metals only formed under high pressure and temperature systems deep underground, and that when they were brought to the surface through weathering and uplift, they just sat there and nothing further happened to them,” says Dr Reith.

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    One thing in particular Reith stressed when he first helmed the BBC is that the newscasters spoke the“King's English“, known today as“BBC English” or more technically“Received Pronunciation”, as he felt it was“a style or quality of English that would not be laughed at in any part of the country”.

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