I'll be returning to CBBC's attitude to Joe McElderry in due course. But, as everyone knows, the story of the moment is about Rupert Murdoch and the phone hacking scandal. Tom Watson MP spoke to Simon McCoy on the BBC News channel this morning, and it was clear that like Newsround Blog Tom has concerns not only about Murdoch, but about the whole British media including the BBC. (see blog on 10 July 2011)

Simon McCoy interviewing Tom Watson this morning said "... the problem is as soon as you start to single out individual organisations the claim is that they all have their own agendas. And perhaps on this that draws away from the central argument here is: one man's power over a particular organisation and what that organisation did while he was in power ..."