Media Brief
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 has appointed property consultants Lambert Smith Hampton to help sell Television Centre. Plans have been drawn up for approval by the finance committee next month. In the summer the Â鶹Éç unveiled proposals for a redevelopment of the site as a "creative quarter" for independent TV production firms, performing groups, and media companies.
that the furore over Wikileaks and its exposures shows that free speech "is woefully lacking in so much of British public life". He writes that "far from being 'feral beasts', to use Tony Blair's phrase, the British media are overly respectful of authority".
The Â鶹Éç World Service was one of the biggest casualties of George Osborne's comprehensive spending review (CSR), . He says this was "partially obscured" because the Â鶹Éç was determined to put a positive spin on the settlement.
The contents of thousands of secret US diplomatic memos uploaded to whistleblowers' website Wikileaks are splashed all over the front pages, as the Â鶹Éç newspaper review shows.
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