>> yeah, but i draw a clear distinction between what i see as a tough professional immedia -- and ruthlessness in the press when i hear people felt bullied and intimidated and so on. we actually did -- we tried to deal with this issue all the way through. and i remember we decided to put the official spokesman of the prime minister on the record. i think that was the first time. we published them. that was the first time. i gave monthly press conferences. that was the only time that had happened after then. i went to the liasion committee. the committee that brings all the chairs together and would be cross examined for the morning. we tried to deal with it. if you read the lobby notes, by the way, they're all there, i think it's very hard to argue when you read the lobby notes that you have a situation where the media are coward and bullied. and my last few years in office, and that's why this issue of how we run the media operation is not really to do with how this issue that i've identified came up in the prez. i also think it's a separate question. i would have to describe him as the compe

it needs  be balanced against the risk of abuse or power and this is t just in the press immediaut when concentration of power is yielded unaccountably need t try to find some remedies and safeguards against that. >> you deal with the four specific areas first of all covering the interaction between the politics and the media starting in paragraph four ofp?? your statement. i'm going to engage in tp=hose = you see fit.p=p=p=p=p=p=p= p=the first specific rubric is = vernment policy which is paragraph 578. >> yes. the point here is that the  entitled individual newspaper groups are entitled to hold strong views and to seek to promote those and swayed the governments to adopt them at al cost and also provides a very important corrective in the political system, so whether it was the daily mail ann curry come the guardian whether the dia picks up to make sure the politicians are not weak in the face of pressure they don't agree with unwarranted or justified in a mature democracy the press is one th