Paxo strikes again

Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has something else to vex him now the fuss about his problems with M&S pants has died down - BBC audience research, no less. Monkey has seen an email sent by the great man last month to an unfortunate BBC News research manager in response to something they sent out about a six-month tracking survey of listeners to Chris Moyles, Jeremy Vine and Today on Radio 4. The research, the email breathlessly intoned, showed that "amazingly the stories differ quite markedly by radio station, the Young (sic) were much more interested in sensational/domestic stories, the middle Aged (sic) around crime and the old about government policy". Sadly, Jeremy was anything but amazed. "I take it you're being ironic in being struck by the different interests of different age-groups," was his one-line response.