Raymond Snoddy says the very least the marketing community can do is realise where self-interest lies and stand more vociferously behind The Sun… and its three million daily sales and the £200 million a year advertising revenue it attracts…

Raymond Snoddy says whatever the outcome of Leveson, the debate will continue forever over what is fair, what is reasonable, and what is in the public interest and what is not…

Raymond Snoddy comments on the latest financial results from BSkyB but asks us to listen out for what is not said – a lack of comment on the future potential of 3D TV. Additionally, the lack of communication from YouView on a confirmed launch date has given rivals (especially Sky) a long time to plan rival complimentary products…

Ahead of Lord Patten’s keynote address at the Oxford Media Convention today, Raymond Snoddy says to try and cut £15 million off the [BBC local radio] budget and get rid of 280 people is simply unsustainable as a piece of politics…

Raymond Snoddy says year after year Deloitte has taken the unfashionable course of highlighting the enduring power of network television while at the same time emphasising the wonders of modern technology. Until now at least they have not been embarrassed by their forecasts…

Raymond Snoddy: ‘The Editors’, both present and former, turned out to be a motley lot with no coherent view, either of the world or media regulation, at the Leveson inquiry this week. But, fear not, help is at hand – bring on the politicians…

Raymond Snoddy looks at the year ahead – predicting that Rupert Murdoch will be humble, having stumbled across the concept for the first time in 2011; that he will not be on Twitter beyond Easter but that he will launch a Sun on Sunday this year; that the iPad will head towards the mainstream, with or without Premier League Rights; and that yet again the vast majority of newspapers will stubbornly refuse to die…

Raymond Snoddy looks back at the events of 2011 – maybe not a total Bah Humbug year but we hope for much better in 2012…

Raymond Snoddy: If the behaviour of NotW journalists should turn out to be only bad, shocking, disgraceful and illegal as opposed to be beyond the pale of anything recognisably human, we have to wonder whether the Leveson inquiry has been set up on what is at least partially a false premise?

While we have all been fixated by the daily mayhem oozing out from the Leveson Committee another potentially more important inquiry has been moving at its usual, seemingly glacial, speed towards an outcome.