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Jeremy Hunt, the shadow culture secretary, has said that the BBC should recruit more conservative newsreaders.

Of course, the Tories think they will win the next election purely because they deserve to. I can’t see any policies, just the Tories (and other parties), meddling with devolution, and the independence of the BBC.

Ironically, Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw [...]

First of all the Conservative leader David Cameron said he’d meddle with the license fee. Then Ben Bradshaw, from the Dept for Culture, Media and Sport said the BBC should be scaled back. James Murdoch, who wants to protect his father’s Sky empire, wanted to scale back the BBC website.

Now Lorraine Hegessey, from Talkback Thames [...]

James Murdoch had a lot of press lately after his lecture in Edinburgh. Apparently he turned down requests to speak at previous Edinburgh Festivals, but today the time is right for him to lambast the UK.

He doesn’t like the BBC, he doesn’t like Ofcom, and he doesn’t like Channel 4.

Murdoch wants to get rid of [...]

I watched about 40 minutes, before deciding to google the Duchess of York.

Whatever you do, do it effectively. If you know you’re going to get a lot of internet traffic, don’t let your internet presence let you down. Others count on it.

For no apparent reason.

According to the News of the World, Kerry Katona has been taking cocaine, and so BBC News say that she’s been dropped from Iceland adverts on TV.

That got me thinking, everyone knows that the advertising world revolves around various illicit drugs and substances, so isn’t dropping someone who does drugs from your adverts a bit [...]

I can’t believe this was organised for 03:00 one summer morning. How many more people would have enjoyed it if, for example, it was organised for 15:00 on a Sunday afternoon…

When designing your material, which could be viewed by millions each day, it’s best to avoid casting insinuations by association.