Media Brief
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| 13:21 UK time, Thursday, 18 February 2010
As the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's media correspondent, I cover the personalities, politics and ethics of the media, as well as creative, business, technology and legal issues. This is my summary of what's going on.
The Press Complaints Commission has not upheld a complaint by the civil partner of the Boyzone singer Stephen Gately about an article by the Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir. 25,000 people, most mobilised by Twitter, said they were offended. The piece, headed A Strange, Lonely and Troubling Death, was published the day before the singer's funeral. The chairman of the PCC, Lady Buscombe, was interviewed on Today with Ben Summerskill of Stonewall.
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The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ has invited the Pope to present Thought for the Day when he visits Britain, according to Radio 4 controller Mark Damazer. The National Secularist Society says it would be better if he were grilled by John Humphrys.
What the Papers Say is being revived on Radio 4 during the general election.
The National Trust says it may launch a campaign to buy the Abbey Road studios, if they are put up for sale by EMI.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News has been accused of "a sense of humour failure" for not allowing its journalists to present fake news clips for a new ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ entertainment show, The Bubble. Sky and ITV journalists are taking part.
The row between Disney and cinema chains over plans for an earlier-than-usual DVD release of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is spreading to other European countries.
The row over fake British passports used by the suspected killers of a Palestinian militant still intrigues the papers.
