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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Matt Wells

Media Talk for Friday July 25

Achtung baby!, as Bono might say.

This week, we're concentrating on Max Mosley's victory against the News of the World in the high court. Is this the "death of kiss and tell journalism" (thank you to the London Evening Standard for that headline, by the way)? What now for beleaguered Screws editor Colin Myler? Roy Greenslade gives us his thoughts.

Also in the show, Steve Hewlett fills us in on the race to replace Roly Keating as BBC2 controller after he was appointed as the Beeb's director of archive content. We also celebrate a Media Talk victory after the announcement that there's a ban on all sponsorship of BBC-run events.

Elsewhere in the programme, Paul Robinson helps us analyse the latest set of Rajars, and a generally traumatic seven days in commercial radio - especially if you work for GCap. We also look ahead to Chris Tarrant's new show - not least the US-style sponsorship deal that's made it all possible - and try to help him with his search for fish-related song titles.

Finally, Gareth McLean pops in to talk lesbians, Dragons and Otis Spunkmeyer cookies. It's a The Wire free zone. Almost.

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