Media: Are We Boring You? ; the Promised Revolution in the BBC's Political Coverage Has Not Materialised. Good Thing Too, Says STEVE RICHARDS - Politics Isn't Meant to Be Fun

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The media brouhaha surrounding the BBC's latest review of political coverage created a false sense of excitement, rather like some of the BBC's reporting of politics itself. Such was the frenzy, it would have been no surprise if Mickey Mouse and Anthea Turner had become joint presenters of a new programme. Instead, when the review was unveiled last week we got Jeremy Vine, or rather, more of Jeremy Vine with some incremental changes.

BBC executives are in a state of perpetual agony about political coverage, partly for the noble reason that some of them care about making the subject more accessible; partly because the BBC - never knowingly understaffed when it comes to …