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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

Politicians dodging media scrutiny The Prime Minister has avoided difficult interviews throughout the General Election campaign, notably with BBC journalist Andrew Neil. In the final days of the campaign he dodged an interview with Good Morning Britain by hiding in a fridge. It was subsequently cited by The Guardian. (

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Meet BBC’s ‘Mr Safe’: New political editor Chris Mason’s pals joke he’s been like a 50-year-old since he was a student, he once considered being a bus driver and still subscribes to his local Yorkshire paper

Mark My Words

To this day, Mason makes sure that he gets every print copy of the local Craven Herald and Pioneer newspaper posted down to his south-east London home, where he now lives with his primary schoolteacher wife and their two sons. . But where did Mason’s hunger for news come from? Even he can’t quite explain.

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