Raymond Snoddy: “Rupert Murdoch could say “to hell with it” – though those would not be the actual words used. He could close down Sky News and save the company an immediate £20 million a year. Worse still the entire future of News International could be called into question…”

Raymond Snoddy: It has been a remarkable few days, in which three important instutitions in British society – the press, the police and the Prime Minister – have all been judged and found wanting…

Raymond Snoddy: Things are moving so fast with one journalistic atrocity following another on a daily basis, each worse in some telling aspect than the one that has gone before, that something urgent now has to be done…

As Jeremy Hunt reaches out for the disastrous “bottom-up” solution for local TV, would-be operators at yesterday’s Future of Broadcasting conference had one simple piece of advice – have the courage to stick to the original plan. It is the only one that will work…

Raymond Snoddy: If Lord Patten can handle the sometimes sulphurous politics of a major university, never mind the Tory party, then the manoeuvrings of the BBC are tame by comparison…

Raymond Snoddy: Whatever numbers are being released, there is always room for sages like Sir Martin Sorrell and John Hegarty to add that little bit of something extra – experience, judgement, balance…

Raymond Snoddy tells a story that rather eloquently illustrates just how large an issue privacy is becoming and how things can go seriously awry when the marketing community gets it even inadvertently wrong…

Raymond Snoddy: Jeremy Hunt has truly understood the benefits of delay in the political world – sometimes the most intractable problems can go away if you just leave them long enough. Time to take advantage & refer BSkyB/Murdoch to the Competition Commission; and as for the great local television project, endless delay would not be too long…

Raymond Snoddy says finding a solution to the current super-injunction mess, farce, brouhaha will not be easy, particularly when it is difficult to define what is in the public interest v what the public is interested in (though actually what the public is interested in is a better starting place than is generally supposed)…

Raymond Snoddy: In a number of important respects Salford has been mishandled by BBC management but walk into MediaCity and you don’t have to be too imaginative to see a future production hub taking shape that could in time give London a run for its money.