What the Sunday's are saying on the media

The Sunday Times reports that the BBC

1. "is institutionally biased, an official report will conclude this week. The year-long investigation, commissioned by the BBC, has found the corporation particularly partial in its treatment of single-issue politics such as climate change, poverty, race and religion. "

Adding that there is a

" danger of BBC programmes being undermined by the
liberal culture of its staff, who need to challenge their own assumptions more.
“There is a tendency to ‘group think’ with too many staff inhabiting a shared
space and comfort zone,”

Of cause the fallout from Blair's comments on the feral press continues,the Mail on Sunday speculates that

"

that the hidden hand of Campbell, his former
speech writer, was at work. "adding the

"speech contains amazing similarities to remarks by
Campbell on the same subject just eight months ago

. "

Incidently John Rentoul in the Sindy says

"Not mentioned once in the speech was the Daily Mail,
which is loathed by Blair, his wife and his former press secretary. Blair once
said to John Lloyd, whose Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
co-hosted Tuesday's speech: "The Daily Mail is an extraordinary product. It
springs from the head of Paul Dacre, who has the kind of prejudices and beliefs
no one knows about. I won't go into them. But he is accountable to no one. He
has absolute and unaccountable power."

Andrew Gilligan writing in the Observer speculates

" whether he actually reads his own speeches before he delivers them"

For Gilligan

"

if the power of the media to shape events is limited, the
power of governments, even discredited ones, to do so is huge. We have laptops
and expense accounts; they have the army, navy and air force. When Mr Blair
calls for more 'ordinary reporting', I suspect he means newspapers filled with
whatever launches or announcements the government has decided shall be news that
day."

Staying with the Observer Peter Preston asks that "Panorama needs to find a slot that fits the crime"

"Nobody - from Jamaican pathologists to the entire
Fleet Street pack - came well out of Bob Woolmer's (ultimately) accidental
death. But one reputation among many looks in particular jeopardy. What happens
when the BBC's flagship hits the rocks"