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Torin Douglas Torin Douglas | 11:16 UK time, Wednesday, 3 November 2010

I'm the 91Èȱ¬'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

ITV programmes cater for the 'lowest common denominator' because the channel is sucked into a 'ratings rat race', its two top bosses said yesterday. The the broadcaster's chief executive Adam Crozier and chairman Archie Norman told a House of Lords committee that its programmes suffered from a 'remarkable lack of diversity'. The that they want ITV to be released from Contract Rights Renewal, the mechanism which governs advertising sales deals.

Jon Snow, the veteran Channel Four News presenter, has hit out "poppy fascism" and "intolerance" after he was criticised for refusing to wear the emblem on TV in the lead up to Remembrance Sunday. and , he told a commenter to get "on yer bike" and that "Hitler lost the war".
that some 91Èȱ¬ presenters have been criticised for wearing charity poppies too early.

What do the Times paywall figures actually mean? The of media commentators saying most have noted that the figures from News International are vague and that what News International has omitted is at least as informative as what's included. that James Murdoch says he's "pretty happy" that they have 50,000 subscribers.

Barack Obama's job may not have been on the line in the US mid-term elections but he is still the focus of most of the attention in the papers, as the 91Èȱ¬'s newspaper review shows.

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