Media Brief

I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my summary of what's going on.

Thousands of schoolchildren will report the news today on BBC School Report News Day. Children from one school interviewed Haiti schoolchildren for Radio 4's Today.

Bob Geldof says the director of the BBC World Service and two other editors should be sacked over a report that some of the aid money he helped raise for Ethiopian famine victims in the 1980s went to buy weapons. In the Guardian Mr Geldof accuses the World Service of a "total collapse of standards and systems", also reported in the Daily Mail. The BBC says it stands by the report, which put forward evidence that millions donated to famine relief ended up in the hands of Ethiopian rebels.

On Radio 4's The Media Show, a World Service editor said the report didn't say what its critics claimed.

The first 3D television sets will go on sale in the UK later this month say the Daily Mail and the Guardian.

The BBC's Richard Anderson reports that the Independent could become the UK's first free national newspaper if its takeover by Alexander Lebedev goes ahead.

Ed Vaizey has taken the Guardian to task for accusing the Conservatives of attacking the BBC to help Rupert Murdoch.

The T-Mobile flashmob commercial won the top prize at last night's British Television Advertising Awards reports the Guardian.

The story of two sisters made pregnant 18 times by their father over 25 years are widely reported as reflected in the BBC newspaper review.

Links in full

BBC | School Report
Arthur Martin | Daily Mail | Bob Geldof accuses BBC of 'total collapse of standards'
Sam Jones | Guardian | Bob Geldof anger at BBC over Band Aid allegations
BBC | Media Show
Sean Poulter | Daily Mail | First 3D TVs launched today
Andrew Clark | Guardian | Launch of 3D televisions promise revolution in home entertainment
Richard Anderson | BBC | Independent set for radical change under Russian owner
James Robinson | Guardian | Tories' media policy is their own, not Rupert Murdoch's
Mark Sweney | Guardian | T-Mobile flashmob wins TV ad of year
BBC | Newspaper review

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