26/09/2012
The Sun's new Ombudsman, Channel 4's Drugs Live, and a broadband levy to save newspapers.
The Media Show · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
Philippa Kennedy has been appointed as Ombudsman for The Sun. She will consider complaints and correct errors but how independent of the newspaper will she actually be?
Channel 4 will screen footage of volunteers in a scientific study taking MDMA. David Glover, Commissioning Editor for "Drugs Live", responds to criticism that the programme risks glamorising drug use.
And could a levy on monthly broadband bills be an effective way of subsidising print journalism? David Leigh of The Guardian thinks so, John Gapper of the FT is not so sure.
Presenter: Steve Hewlett Producer: Richard Hooper.