Monkey doesn't know if Jay Hunt is a keen Daily Mail reader. Perhaps not. But if she was eagerly awaiting the paper's coverage of her appointment as BBC1 controller, she may have been in for a nasty shock - though it can hardly be a surprise if she's ever monitored the paper's visceral BBC-phobia. The headline? "Dumbed down blonde to run BBC1". Leaving aside the question of whether a person can actually be dumbed down, how did they come up with that? The justification is that Hunt was "accused of dumbing down" the Six O'Clock News, while she is "an Australian blonde". Jay, don't worry, you'll get used to it.
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