Did the press enter into a Faustian pact to ensure favourable regulation from Government? Raymond Snoddy asks why newspapers failed to bite when given a very juicy story.

Based on a chapter from the new book What Price Channel 4?, Raymond Snoddy reveals details about a radical, but failed plan concocted by the Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport.

Is the Boston Globe, renowned for its investigative journalism, about to go down the same route as The Independent, wonders Raymond Snoddy.

As the UK’s TV audience measurement body releases its first ever Television Landscape Report, Raymond Snoddy crunches the digits for himself.

The Sun’s ‘Queen Backs Brexit’ headline is almost certainly so exaggerated as to amount to inaccuracy, writes Raymond Snoddy – so what does it mean for both the newspaper and the regulators?

Curiously, the Brexit debate and the disruptions that are likely to accompany the June referendum, could actually save Channel 4 from the threat of privatisation, writes Raymond Snoddy.

How is it that almost all published consultancy reports somehow manage to come up with conclusions that chime with the instincts of their paymasters?

Whatever the papers say, it is very likely the ‘Scottish referendum effect’ will come into play and produce a vote for the status quo, writes Raymond Snoddy.

BBC Three has gone online-only this week, and the Independent newspaper is set to follow suit in March – but let no-one think it is a neat, futuristic thing or anything other than second best.

Does such detailed coverage amount to media madness – or a hangover from the past when there was supposed to be a special relationship between our two countries?