Raymond Snoddy says more than ten years after the CRR was first dreamed up by Granada a lot of the heat could have oozed out of the argument and CRR may be no more contentious than product placement.

Raymond Snoddy says the picture is not entirely bleak but it really helps when those owning and running local and regional newspapers actually believe in their future…

Raymond Snoddy on radio – a talkSPORT football match made in heaven; record audiences; and how to replace dead Radio 4 listeners…

Raymond Snoddy says “the Press is drinking at the Last Chance Saloon”…again and the industry had better pay attention.

Raymond Snoddy says at first sight Hunt’s decision not to go for an immediate referral was politically crazy, naïve even, by appearing to succumb to special pleading on such a politically sensitive issue. However, the truth is rather more complicated and not at all what it appears to be…

Raymond Snoddy says one thing is clear, the patently decent, sincere politician (Jeremy Hunt) is committed to retaining impartiality rules for news whether on national or local television. Nothing like a big, bold new Communications Act to take his mind off things when local television goes tits up in 2014…

Raymond Snoddy says Max Mosley has come back to haunt his tormentors: “There is every chance that the judges of the Human Rights Court in Strasbourg could create the Mosley manoeuvre – a new extension of privacy law, which could turn out to be very onerous for the press.”

Raymond Snoddy says despite the poisoned chalice left to him by Vince Cable, Jeremy Hunt will be in the relatively comfortable position of being able to accept a Competition Commission go-ahead for Murdoch’s takeover of BSkyB before the year is out…

Raymond Snoddy becomes a fortune-teller for the day – “everyone can head off to celebrate Christmas in the queues at Heathrow secure in the knowledge that 2011 is sorted. Well, apart from Vince Cable that is – when a politician becomes totally ridiculous the consequences are always inevitable”…

Raymond Snoddy says (in a whisper) that the BBC might not have done too badly in its licence fee battle with the government – “evidence of this can be seen from the obvious anger coming from Rupert Murdoch’s News International. David Cameron has not delivered on their hopes for a very much smaller BBC – something for which we should all be grateful”…