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class, the places we ve seen and other parts of our national life don t treat them in the same way as they treat other organizations and people. i think that s the bit when you talk about fixing that has to be fixed. let me add one other element to it because i am going to ask you about fixing it, buts other element is that whereas the press will look to hold politics to account, health boards, education authorities, judiciary to account, with rare exception, nobody is holding what they are doing to account. correct. correct. correct. and i ve addressed that in part when we get on to the yes, yes future. but i think that is the point. they sit in judgment on and expect openness and transparency from every other part of our national life apart from themselves. and that s why i think they re in the mess that they re in. we have moved on a bit but before you left proprietors, i wanted to elicit your view and i ve got it right. i mean, i know you dealt with this f
but when he reflected on conversation, it was immediately spent a mine, wouldn t it is? it didn t, no. at no stage in the run up to the 2010 the election did you harbor any such fear or concern, is that it? no. why not? because although mr. brown had said those things to mr. murdoch, and although i had heard similar insinuations from others close to mr. brown that there was this tone of threat about it. the fact is that it didn t occur to me that they were real or proper or, i just, i just dismissed them, i suppose. some would say an elected government has executive power, or through parliament, would be quite entitled to bring in media policies which thought to be in the public interest but nonetheless did impact on the commercial interests of the media companies. would you agree? well, i m sure that it is absolute, of course it s possible governments to debate regulation and policy on the media. of co