Opinion: Leader - Pressure intensifies on BBC's PR teams
10 Dec 2004 | by Ravi Chandiramani
The BBC is ending the year, as it began it, under the public microscope.
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With most of the nation's media still obsessed with the Blunkett affair, last week's important pre-Budget report was a one-day wonder. Chancellor Gordon Brown's wife Sarah may have found time to lunch with the Home Secretary, but her husband will have been less supportive. He would have preferred stories...
The BBC is ending the year, as it began it, under the public microscope.
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