Media Brief
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| 10:00 UK time, Wednesday, 22 December 2010
I'm the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
Business Secretary Vince Cable will stay in cabinet despite "declaring war" on Rupert Murdoch, says Downing Street. But he will be stripped of his powers to rule on Mr Murdoch's bid to take control of BSkyB, which will be handed to Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. In my analysis on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News website, I suggest his remarks shed new light on the media and political campaign to block the takeover.
describes how the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ broke the story after the Daily Telegraph didn't print the revelations yesterday. "So incensed was a whistleblower at the Telegraph, that he or she contacted Robert Peston, business editor for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News. It was Peston - a former business editor at the Sunday Telegraph - who broke the story."
Has the Daily Telegraph acted ethically in its use of undercover reporters to expose the private views of Vince Cable and other Liberal Democrat ministers? On , newspaper columnists Peter Preston and Stephen Glover discuss journalistic morality:
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Vince Cable's "wild remarks" about Rupert Murdoch were made "in a sad bid to impress two young women" and prints pictures of the two women reporters. It says 70 civil servants at the Department for Business will move to the Department of Culture Media & Sport.
Earlier, the European Commission cleared the News Corporation takeover of BSkyB on competition grounds, .
What are the views of the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Rupert Murdoch? , he reproduces an interview with Broadcast magazine, in which he says "What we should recognise is that he has probably done more to create variety and choice in British TV than any other single person because of his huge investment in setting up Sky TV."
The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ newspaper review says Vince Cable's controversial remarks about Rupert Murdoch and the subsequent loss of some of his powers feature on most newspaper front pages. The Independent headline reads: "The man who declared war on Murdoch, and lost".
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