Dr. Roderick Flynn:

I would have no problem with podcasters who only do podcasting being supported. The point about the scheme is that it is meant to support quality content, not necessarily quality institutions. You will probably get quality content from quality institutions - I get that - but what the Sound and Vision fund used to do was look at the proposal for the specific project that was in front of it that was about to be funded. What ended up coming out of the journalism support schemes was more support for individual journalists to produce that kind of content. The goalposts have kind of shifted and I will not dwell on this because it would take 20 minutes to figure it out.