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by Lamiat Sabin
MORE than 22,500 people backed the call this weekend for a planned BBC “poverty porn” TV talent contest to be scrapped.
James Pauley from Bolton started an online petition on Friday calling for the halt of Britain’s Hardest Grafter, which pits benefit claimants and poor workers against each other for a £15,000 prize.
On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR
JAMES NALTON takes a look at the German league’s move to grow its audience in Britain, and around the future of football on TV in general
