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Jane Root's exit from US cable broadcaster Discovery early today came as a surprise to many. Not least a colleague of Monkey's in MediaGuardian Towers, who spoke to the former BBC2 controller twice yesterday about rumours of her leaving, which she denied. Root is now a frontrunner for the BBC1 controller job, but Monkey fears she may have forgotten what the big issue in the UK industry is at the moment - truth.

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