Talking to contacts this morning in light of ITV's £2.7 billion losses, it's hard to detect too much sympathy around for those who control the broadcaster. Plenty for those among the 600 who will lose their jobs as it restructures but beyond that there is a feeling that ITV has played a part...
Anyone else watch Mark Thompson's and Michael Lyons' performance before the Commons culture, media and sport select committee? There was pitiful little evidence of either wearing a hair shirt - in fact, neither looked that they were particularly bothered to be there. Thompson said that the BBC...
Last year Jeremy Clarkson was criticised for calling a car "a bit gay". Ofcom didn't like it, but this hasn't stopped Vanity Fair which has launched a gay car blog. On the BBC's 'Top Gear' Clarkson asked a man in the audience if he would consider buying a Daihatsu Copen...
Listening to BBC Director General Mark Thompson’s hair shirt speech yesterday, it occurred to me that there’s a rich irony out there. While advertisers and agencies take a rigorous regime for granted, our public service broadcaster has been playing fast and loose with the truth. In our quest...
