Media Brief
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| 10:29 UK time, Monday, 13 December 2010
I'm the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
The that it was clear to most people that more ´óÏó´«Ã½ employees would vote Labour or Lib Dem than Conservative. He also said the ´óÏó´«Ã½ had been out of touch with public opinion in the recent past and shown leftwing bias on Europe, immigration and Northern Ireland. The paper says he praised much that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ does, and said its journalists put their commitment to fair-minded reporting above "political affiliations".
The the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has chosen Huw Edwards to lead its coverage of the Royal wedding. According to "´óÏó´«Ã½ sources", the newsreader was favoured over David Dimbleby, the voice of State occasions for several decades, ending a long family tradition. The late Richard Dimbleby commentated on the coronation in 1953 and the funeral of George VI.
The blonde Russian accused of being a spy also worked for the ´óÏó´«Ã½, the . Katia Zatuliveter was employed as a researcher on a major documentary in Moscow four months before she was arrested on suspicion of espionage.
ITV and Channel 4 shows such as Coronation Street and The Inbetweeners will soon be available to watch via Sony's PlayStation 3 games consoles for the first time . The broadcasters are following in the footsteps of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s iPlayer.
Fans of the Archers will be shocked by the 60th anniversary episode, according to its editor Vanessa Whitburn. a special 30-minute anniversary episode will be broadcast on 2 January and it will "shake Ambridge to the core".
Jeremy Vine is to step down as presenter of Panorama at the end of the year, after four years . The programme is to go without a regular presenter.
Former painter and decorator Matt Cardle was crowned winner of The X Factor last night. Figures out today are expected to show it reached a record audience reports the ´óÏó´«Ã½.
The ´óÏó´«Ã½'s newspaper review says many of the papers lead with the news that the man suspected of a suicide bombing in Sweden on Saturday had links to the UK.
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