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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The the Â鶹Éç director-general Mark Thompson is expected to fight back against the Corporation's critics when he gives the keynote MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival this evening.

The Mark Thompson is expected to contrast the Â鶹Éç's £2 billion a year spending on UK-produced programmes with Sky's policy of spending heavily on sports rights and movies.

X Factor contestants will no longer have their performances tweaked using sound filters, after the practice led to viewer complaints, the Â鶹Éç reports.

The Â鶹Éç's newspaper review highlights the papers analysis of the return of the former Polly Peck boss Asil Nadir to face justice.

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