That Was Last Week

I actually heard this program, embarrassingly enough. There's a certain irony here. The Beeb was helping to push a campaign to muzzle the press, justified by nothing more than a series of eye-scratchy attacks of the 'you're insensitive' type from the Perennially Outraged. Wasn't this the self-same organisation that was assuring us last week that being able to broadcast slanderous material was the very cornerstone of our democracy ? Which is it ? Is slander the mark of a free press or is being rude enough to warrant Big Brother clamping down ? We may never know.