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Packing them in
Griffin complaint over BBC 'mob' It's hard to feel much sympathy for Nick Griffin, the leader of the right-wing British National Party, whose controversial appearance on Question Time last night provoked a sizeable demonstration outside Television Centre and led to...
The right to know
Parliament and free speech: The right to know The Minton report If ever anyone were still sanguine about the right of free speech in this country, the débâcle this week concerning Trafigura, Carter-Ruck, The Guardian and Twitter should cause deep...
Safe in their hands?
David Elstein: Murdoch "riled" by Ofcom According to David Elstein, formerly of, inter alia, the BBC, Thames and Channel 5, Ofcom's "devastating" and "unanswerable" report of a couple of months ago, which exposed Sky's abuse of its dominant position in...
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Television
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Re-regulation mustn't go too far
One Born Every Minute
The premium rate phone scandal, continued
Back-door privatization?
Selling off bits of Beeb
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In-Programme Pointers are here to stay.
Bias at the Beeb?
Has the BBC lost its way?
Media on Mars
Life and the media - then and now
Funding the BBC
The end of the BBC as we know it?
Regionalism: A spent force?
Regional federalism was the foundation of ITV. Should we mourn its passing? Maybe not.
Inevitable
How the unions ruined Thames and destroyed themselves
ITV sophisticates
Reality television, talent shows and the reality of television talent
Know future
Stephen Hopkins on the mess ITV has made for itself
Never Mind The Quality
The ruination of ITV, seen by Stephen Hopkins
Radio
Former home of the Shock Jocks
A past more interesting than the present
Inform, educate, entertain
Radio 4: a personal history
