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image captionThe next year will see the digital transformation of our lives accelerate - and a new settlement emerge between democracy and the data giants
Well, my media predictions for 2020 were a load of rubbish, weren t they? I didn t see a pandemic coming. Then again, neither did you, unless you did; in which case, you must be very rich, and I m free for lunch when restrictions have eased if you fancy it?
I suppose I could blame Covid-19 for the failure of ITV to be bought, as I said it would, or the lack of a re-balancing between trends and events in news. But the truth is that - alas! - they were dud predictions.