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prime minister had taken part in theirfirst live prime minister had taken part in their first live televised debate. candidates were asked a range of questions from the studio audience including tax and the nhs. now on bbc news, the media show. a warning this programme contains flashing images. hello and welcome. today we are asking what role the media has in choosing the next conservative leader. how do you cover an election campaign that most of the public doesn't have a say in? and what might all this mean for a channel 4's planned privatisation? next week's media bill, which woul...

over law enforcement today. mark claxton is here for a special conversation about just comply. that's coming up. before the hour is out, we will hear from the icon fran leibowitz on politics, democracy, and why she says mitch mcconnell is one of the worst things to ever happen to american government. fran doesn't pull her punches, and we will hear from her later tonight. so, i got to tell you, as far as i can see, there is something to get excited about here, and we'll goat all that, but the top story are the new details about trump's national security scandal. and this is one of tho...

♪ >> listen to it. oh, they know when it hits the bottom, it will be 1990, good-bye to the 80s. >> ten, nine, eight -- eight, eight, eight! >> oh, will this horrible year never end? >> when the '90s began, we started to see a lot of experimentation. and "the simpsons" i think in some senses was inspired by not necessarily hatred of television, but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. >> tv respects me. it laughs with me. not at me. >> you're stupid. >> doh! >> i think the sitcoms of the '80s were such a warm, safe, humor. >> i love you guys. >> the...

>> there's no longer this theory of what popular entertainment must be. >> incoming! >> who are the heroes? the people who watch this show. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this is the week when the major broadcast networks unveil their fall lineup of shows. and every executive in hollywood knows how well "the sopranos" is doing on cable, which is a network problem. >> i think hbo altered everything for this reason alone, is there were no commercials. >> we are dependent on sponsors. there's so much we can do in terms of language, in terms of violence, in terms of sex. >> to a large degree, a...

interfere with the media. >> excuse me! >> we have the responsibility to give the audience what it tuned in to see. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the years of the '60s which end in a few hours have a bad reputation that is not entirely justified. some things got worse, obviously. but tv and other news coverage is better, not worse. we simply developed more demanding standards. >> when i think of tv, i think of the '70s. >> what is this world coming to? >> the american public was hungry for more. >> more was allowed that hadn't been before. >> it was the last decade where it was a campfire televisio...