How TV news is distorting India's media

The BBC, I'm happy to say, has been spared that last problem. A friend of mine, who is in marketing, remarked when I told her about Ms "Young and Vivacious" that the woman "clearly doesn't know the reputation of the BBC in India because it's obvious that you recruit people for their journalist skills".

I basked briefly in the reflected glory of the BBC's international reputation for integrity and professionalism until she added "because most of the BBC correspondents we see are either old or ugly."