“The silencing of the Munchkins must rank as one of the most inept acts of censorship Britain has seen.”
Nick Cohen, having some fun with language over Judy Garland’s latest hit single: Its decision to ban every part of the song except for a five-second clip in a news report shows clearly something that many people outside the media rarely understand: the BBC folds under pressure. During the debate on the politicians’ plans to regulate the press and news websites, many people have asked why journalists should worry when regulation works so well at the BBC. The behaviour of the BBC last week explains why. Tory MPs and the Daily Mail picked on the BBC rather than iTunes or YouTube because
