What the Sunday's are saying

The Observer carries an interview with the champion of hard news stories Mika Brzezinski who famously this week tried to set fire to her script with its Paris Hilton lead.

"I had one woman send me an email and she told me was
weeping tears of joy that someone finally took a stand,"

Brzezinski said her actions were not planned before last
Thursday, but it was at that morning's news meeting that she had just felt that
she could not stand silent as the Hilton story was put on the top of the news
agenda. 'My co-host and I had problems with the story at 6am, when we had our
first morning meeting. I let my co-host Joe know and he told me to go with my
gut. I want to thank him for his support in that,'

In the same paper Peter Preston looks at the 16 pages that the Sun devoted to its interview this week with George Bush.Could it be ,he asks

that the Sun - devoting those 16 pages on a day when the
Labour-loyal Mirror was more interested in 'the liberation of Paris' (Hilton) -
caught a mood that others missed until they saw David Cameron urging his troops
to their feet in the Commons on Thursday?

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The Independent says that the newspapers

" verdict on Gordon Brown's new Cabinet was mostly
favourable"

but

"John Kampfner, the editor of the New Statesman, was
underwhelmed: "Looking at the new Cabinet walking up Downing Street yesterday
afternoon, one might be forgiven for thinking that old faces in new jobs doesn't
quite add up to a revolution." And Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun detected "worrying
signs of a shift to the left - and towards Europe.."

The same paper asks "Can the man from ITV mend the pieces of commercial radio? "


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Just six months after his divorce from ITV, brought about by
plunging share values and tumbling ratings, Charles Allen has emerged as a
potential saviour of Britain's commercial radio industry. The former ITV chief
executive's new role as chair of investment company Global Radio has sparked
hopes that a single strong player can emerge to chart the industry's path to the
digital future and challenge the dominance of the BBC. "

Finally James Robinson in the Observer looks at the implication on the British media if Rupert Murdoch is successful in his acquisition of the Wall Street journal speculating that

"the man who runs Murdoch's British papers, News International chairman Les
Hinton, could take charge of the Journal if the bid is successful, and that
Witherow, who has edited the Sunday Times for over a decade, could take Hinton's
job. That would prompt another round of musical chairs, with either Lewis, or
former Times business editor Patience Wheatcroft returning, although one former
executive says: