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Why is the BBC becoming so reactionary at the moment? It’s only a couple of weeks since they rang me up asking for someone to be outraged about the gay Tesco ads on Tottenham Court Road station and they rang off when I said I thought they were perfectly harmless.

Today they pick up on some nothing story about people getting mugged for their iPods and they ask if they can send a whole film crew down to the office to do a piece with me on the news about how dangerous it is to wear an iPod on the street because it makes you a target.

I know it got its fingers burnt after the Hutton Report, but surely it’s not reduced to being a broadcast version of the Daily Mail, is it?

It’s only a couple of days ago that they seemingly devoted half an hour of the Today programme to talking about a new Beach Boys album, although in fairness I was waking up at the time so it was probably closer to five minutes but just feeling a lot longer.

Sadly, it means I’ve found myself watching ITV News these last few nights.

If it goes much further I’ll probably end up switching to Sky.

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