HILTON AT THE TOP

A newsreader bites back. Three cheers for this presenter refusing to cow-tow to the celeb culture we're all expected to bow down to and respect. I suppose her family connections both give her the financial strength and the moral strength to act this way, but it's still most rare. Television news does not have the time to cover the major stories around the world. Paris Hilton may be a talking point but it's not NATIONAL NEWS. And no, I'm not harking back to the so-called good old days of the BBC when the radio newsreader would occasionally announce: "It's 3 o'clock and this is the news read by Harcourt Smythe. There is no news this afternoon. Our next bulletin is at 7 this evening. Good afternoon." Something like that. Bugger, maybe I do want those days back.