Like politics, tv has become full of programmes about the world of - television. I don't watch tv anymore and prefer the Internet and above all radio. Radio seems much more adventurous to me and more connected to the 'real' world.

BBC Radio has gone very much in the same direction - or maybe it led the way to crap and dumbing down. I find myself turning off the radio more frequently than ever.

Also the additional phenomenon I blogged about in a nutshell on the 1st March 2007, where our presenters/reporters love to hear their own voices, push their own opinions and undermine anything different. Oh, and for good measure, the offering of one-sided, slanted 'factual' reporting is predominating as well. Though we did not need the confirmation it came anyway viz;

"We like our reporters and journalists to have their own agendas"

Andrew Marr: Start The Week BBC Radio 4 Monday 26th February 2007.

Now we definitely know what we always knew.

Then of course, there's the settling of personal score; the BBC is so good at that too, it takes score settling to the pinnacles of irritation and boredom. Poor hard done by aunty Beeb, riddled with ire. It's time someone gripped arrogant aunty and gave her a thorough spring clean. Nobody dares.

Balance? Whose balance? What balance?

You can't critically analyse easily what you hear, read or see these days. It is all skewed and tarred with organisational and personal interest.

Nothing new under the Sun, as they say.

You're right to point out the Norrie story as typical of the incestuous attitude of the meeja.

Sadly this self-spawned plagiarism is happening everywhere; even here, since you nicked the title of one of my blogs from yesterday.

How wonderful to have lived so long and witnessed so much change in your lifetime though; Norrie and others like her should be treated as national treasures.