gets better. the country has been rocked by demonstrations of our soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicine. he was appointed in an attempt to diffuse the protests. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. welcome to the media show. welcome too to the headquarters of channel 4 in central london. and we re here because the government has confirmed it s pushing on with its plans to privatise channel 4, despite the reservations of the broadcaster. so we re going to look through all of the issues that this raises with our guest today, the ceo of channel 4, alex mahon. alex, thank you very much indeed forjoining us. this wasn t the outcome you wanted. so where did it go wrong? well, i m not sure that it went wrong. i mean, obviously, this is the government s decision to make. what i would say is it s never quiet times at channel 4. this is not a job you would take if you wanted an easy life and a restful retirement. how often do you speak to the dcms or to nadine dorries? w
because certain, you know, certain institutions have kind of taken fright at investing in natural gas projects banks and what have you, but obviously because of the energy crisis we ve got at the moment, government is trying to rectify that and by reclassifying the green project at the moment, that might be the way to kind of get to banks and pension funds to look again at investing in these projects because obviously we do need that, we need the supplies to be secure, so i think it s a rebranding exercise, but obviously it s not going down very well with environmentalists, but i think it will only be a temporary measure, i transition energy, so i don t know how long that transition lasts. that transition lasts. we re in . uite that transition lasts. we re in quite long that transition lasts. we re in quite long transitions at - that transition lasts. we re in quite long transitions at the i quite long transitions at the moment, army? quite long transitions at the moment,
with me are the daily mirror s political correspondent aleeta adu, and sam lister deputy political editor at the daily express. let s take a quick look at some of tomorrow s front pages. the daily mail has an interview with the prime minister, in which he intensifies his campaign against working from home. borisjohnson says when he s done it, he s wasted a lot of time making cups of coffee and eating cheese. the i has details of a drug that has halved breast cancer cases among post menopausal women the nhs is planning to roll ir out on a wider basis. the ft leads with tech tycoon elon musk putting his billion dollar bid to buy twitter on hold. the wagatha christie libel trial makes the front page of the mirror with coleen rooney giving evidence in court about her past marital problems. the government will scrap plans to ban cheap deals on unhealthy foods, according to the express in a move to tackle the cost of living crisis. cheap food also makes the front page of
join us he really, really just let it go on clarence thomas in the judiciary committee yesterday. we re going to show the video and get more from congressman jeffries about that. and at the end of the hour, there is another, there s someone else who let it go. and that is patty lupone, tony winner, patty lupone. tony nominee. who in a discussion with a audience at her broadway show the other day. had to enforce the mask policy. in her theater. in the video s gone viral, a lot of people have seen already. but it deserves, it absolutely deserves the national tv attention that we re going to give it at the end of the hour. and patty love that. i was on the subway they, thinking i could use patty lupone. no one s wearing mask any more. but i m looking forward to that. i m looking forward to it. once again, donald trump and trump republicans have brought us to a place tonight where we have never been before. in the trump era of our politics, which is still ongoing, when i