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Meet BBC’s ‘Mr Safe’: New political editor Chris Mason’s pals joke he’s been like a 50-year-old since he was a student, he once considered being a bus driver and still subscribes to his local Yorkshire paper

Mark My Words

. ‘It’s the perfect thing to kick back with, in the company of a cuppa, when I get home after Any Questions at the weekend’, he told Iain Dale on the LBC presenter’s All Talk podcast an interview released in July last year. ‘I think there could be a far broader range of voices than we hear on the national media.

Radio 60
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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

Trust in the media was 37%. The rise of social media and tech platforms in the last decade means that anyone can create and share content. Social media fulfils an unhealthy trait of the human nature that rejects the truth unless it confirms a bias. It’s not hard to understand why. It’s not all bad news.