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The Media Show: Channel 4; Leveson; trust in the BBC

07/11/2012

Channel 4; Leveson; trust in the BBC

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The latest on Leveson, Channel 4 at 30, and is the public losing trust in the BBC?

Why are the Financial Times and Guardian moderating their position ahead of Leveson? As it prepares to turn 30, what next for Channel 4? And is the public losing trust in the BBC?

As Lord Justice Leveson puts the finishing touches to his forthcoming report into the culture, practices and ethics of the press we speak to a former Editor of The Guardian Peter Preston and the academic Professor Natalie Fenton about why the FT and The Guardian - both previously open to the idea that legislation might be needed to tempt, or force, reluctant media owners to participate, have moderated their positions

We celebrate thirty years of Channel 4 with the founding Chief Executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs and look back at its achievements and the challenges it faces in the future. 

And we try to get to the bottom of why the BBC - so long immune from bad ratings on the trust scorecard appears to be suffering too. 76% of us apparently do not trust senior managers at the BBC to tell the truth.

Presenter Steve Hewlett
Producer Beverley Purcell.

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