What the media commentators are saying

Jane Martinson at the Guardian takes a look at the BBC Trust and asks

Was it in the charter that the BBC Trust should be run like a bus service? We wait all year for a review and now there are three arriving at once.

adding

No organisation would choose to spend its first year dealing with a royal row and an internal revolt over restructuring that looked nastier than any in its 81-year history. So pity the poor Trust employees, who are currently dealing with the fruit of all those detailed analytical reviews started in earlier, halcyon days.

In the same paper with the Olympics fast aproaching,Phil Harding asks

As 20,000 journalists get ready for the Beijing Olympics, just how much freedom will they have to report what is happening on and off the track?

and reminds us

In January 2007 the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that accredited foreign journalists would be free to travel in China, outside Tibet and the Muslim western region of Xinjiang, without official permission. In practice, this has only partly happened. In the last fortnight access for the foreign media to the disaster areas of the Sichuan earthquake has been relatively unrestricted. But during the Tibet disturbances in March more than 40 journalists were turned away from covering protests in neighbouring regions, and some were detained

Staying with the subject of China Matthew Norman in the Independent

can't recall,can't recall ,IN ALL the years of observing British newspapers, a change of heart as startling and touching as the one at The Times, which has executed a quite dizzying volte-face on the vexing issue of China.

According to Donald Trelford in the Independent

Newspapers are a unique kind of business, someone ventured over dinner the other night: "In no other business do the owners and managers have no control over the product."

The paper has a feature on BBC Journalist Matt Frei who for

For six years has been attending White House press conferences, as the BBC's Washington correspondent and more recently as the face of BBC World News America. And never once has he been invited to ask a question of George W Bush.