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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Matt Wells

Media talk for April 7

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The gleeful attempts by George Galloway to bring down the fake sheikh, aka the News of the World's undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood, provide colourful material for this week's Media Talk panel: Guardian Unlimited's Emily Bell, our press columnist Cristina Odone, and magazines guru David Hepworth. Cristina is also exercised about Julia Hobsbawm's PR/networking outfit Editorial Intelligence, which counts a number of prominent journalists on its advisory board. She says they should have nothing to do with it.

Plus we catch up with Peter Bazalgette, the man we must blame for bringing Big Brother to Britain, who says TV on mobile phones is the next big thing. Jeff Jarvis tells us of his crusade against the decision to ban the word "bullshit" from the US airwaves, and Gareth McLean has some sharp words to round things off.

Leave your bouquets and brickbats below.

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