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the post—brexit trading rules in northern ireland. the senior state department official, derek chollet, warned that the row risked undermining western unity over ukraine. now on bbc news... the media show. hello. on the show today we have gotjohn micklethwait, editor in chief at bloomberg, we are taking a look at a new podcast, that charts the rise of reality tv with one of the co—hosts, pandora sykes and, wagatha christie, how can we not talk about it? and we have got one of the key players here in the whole drama, simon boyle, who is the executive editor of the sun and their bi...

Legal and democratic rights must be defended to put an end to the situation where public figures can be torn down on the basis purely of allegations.

Ok, interesting. jim watterson, media editor at the guardian, let mejust bring you in, what do you make of the bloomberg proposition? well, there isjust this enormous amount of competition for high—end news readers who will pay a lot of money for sort of quality news. you have got the ft, you have got ben smith, my former boss at buzzfeed launching a new project, you have got the economist and you have obviously got this bloomberg offering now among many others. the real challenge is, is there enough interest to sustain all of these places, because advertisers love these readers, but are the...

The argument that we should be the main one, we do more coverage than anyone else when you are looking . at business and finance around the world. that is what we do, and i think within britain we should be - able to get into that position . and make the same argument. even then, i think there - is a large market for people who have more, i suppose, more money than time. - if you are in business, - the amount of money that subscribers, the different. competitors that you talked about, it is not that much- compared with the advantage you get from knowing things ahead of other people, - and that...

Through and say what really matters, there was a piecel a couple of days ago about levelling up and we looked at all the constituencies . of britain and went around adding up all the places that had gone forward and sadly, there were not very many of them. - nobody accused us of bias i in that, whilst i think in many cases in britain, almost- automatically, when people read things, they imagine which side they are coming from, - and we are not. in that category. ok, interesting. jim watterson, media editor at the guardian, let mejust bring you in, what do you make of the bloomberg proposition?...