On the latest Media Talk podcast, Matt Wells is joined by Stephen Brook and James Robinson to discuss 'sleaze 2.0': email smear campaigns, dodgy spin doctoring, and the anatomy of a web-created political scandal. We hear from Andrew Neil and guardian.co.uk's senior political correspondent Andrew Sparrow about the latest crisis to hit Gordon Brown, and ask: will politicians ever truly 'get' the blogosphere? Is Damian McBride really only 34? And does anyone out there have a good word to say about Derek Draper?
Also in the podcast, we analyse the implications for the BBC newsroom after Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen was criticised by the BBC Trust for his coverage of the Gaza conflict.
Finally, after Nipplegate engulfed ITV – admittedly for about 10 minutes – we round up the rest of the week's television news, including Susan Boyle's star turn on Britain's Got Talent. (Look, there's no use pretending it's been anything other than a quiet week in the media village.)
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