They must have a reason for constantly splashing with Madeleine stories: their readers buy more of those papers.

Take a look at this blog mate:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/183569.html

You’re right about the precedent of the front page apology. It may well be cited in future, but unless the papers are MADE to print on the front page, they will only do so if it suits THEIR priorities.

You only have to see Sky’s Ian Payne’s oft woeful attempts when he takes over for big midweek games to highlight this.

- How much should a senior public figure be judged on, and accountable for, actions in his or her private life?

And Mosley is not a public official, as such, although he is a ‘public figure’ as head of the FIA.

He’s not a Government Minister, for example. – And even then, it’s questionable how much one should be held to account for actions in one’s private life, which are unrelated to one’s job.

Becuase:
-Everyone has a right to a right to privacy
-If private actions are unrelated to your job then why does it matter anyway?
-Who are we to judge?

I don’t have the answers. But it’s important to question the validity of holding a ‘public’ individual to account over such actions – and establish this basis – because only then can any resulting decision, debate or punishment be upheld.

The drama created in the studio is far better than the days of watching agonisingly on while the teletext page takes an absoloute age to update.

One of the main reasons for the quality of Soccer saturday has to be Jeff Stelling and the chemistry between him and the other panellists.

It is entertaining watching merse and Le Tissier ribbing each other we Stelling often on the recieving end of the abuse.

Something which the BBC have not quite manged to pull off with their football coverage which is either really smug (Lineker, Shearer, Hansen) or is just plain dull. (Crooks, Dixon, Peacock)

Personally, the highlight of this season was Liverpool v Havant and Waterlooville. I genuinely thought he might be in daner of a coronary every time Havant scored.

He is everything that is right with football coverage on the TV. Bring on August!

However, I think that The News of The World can rest assured that it’s exposition of naughty sex tales, prying into the personal lives of celebrities will keep it afloat, and ahead of the broadcasters, for many years to come.

The News of The World sells copies based on two things – sex and football. Football, admittedly, gets analysed so comprehensively on television that by midnight on a Saturday, there is often little more to say.

But with sex exposés, the gutter press has its own niche. The Sunday tabloids routinely break stories like the Max Mosley scandal because it’s what they do best, and what sets them apart from television coverage.

TV will latch on to the sex scandals once they’re out in the public domain. But in the main, stories broken on TV fall into the bracket of harder, more ‘important’ news.

The likes of the News of The World dig for this type of ‘gem’ with great purpose. They also give people with time on their hands and aspirations to make an easy few thousand pounds great incentive to take sneaky photographs of stars during their more compromising situations.

This has always been the way of the Sunday tabloids, and it’s unlikely to change. Reading about adultery, deceit and romps on a Sunday is near on as traditional as a Sunday roast.

As long as The News of The World continues to dedicate itself to exposing the Max Mosleys of this world, then it will no doubt continue to hold off the broadcasters on the sex scandal front well into the digital age.

TV news is great for breaking news – but for me continuing stories work far better in the print media.

They go into more depth, look at things from a variety of different angles, and the reader cna cherry pick what they read.

For me this is the kind of thing that print media do very well, and is one reason why, in my opinion, it may change and evolve, but it will never become obsolete.

I would suggest that we should probably have a referendum on a new figure of national pride we could celebrate but I fear that Jeremy Clarkson would probably get the vote and I don’t like the idea of a national tight jeans day.