Quotes of the Week - BBC, Twitter, Facebook
The BBC's move to Salford, Facebook's PR tactics and the ongoing fallout over superinjunctions... It's Quotes of the Week.
"This was not at all standard operating procedure and is against our policies, and the assignment on those terms should have been declined."
PR agency Burson Marsteller holds its hands up after being rumbled putting out smear stories about Google on behalf of Facebook.
"We are in this crazy situation where information is available freely online which you are not able to print in newspapers. Technology, and Twitter in particular, is making a mockery of the privacy laws that we have and we do need to think about the regulatory environment that we have."
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt promises to rethink privacy laws after details of celebrities alleged to have obtained super injunctions were spread on the social networking site Twitter.
"On a practical level, we simply cannot review all one 55million-plus tweets created and subsequently delivered every day. There are tweets that we do remove, such as illegal tweets and spam. However, we make efforts to keep these exceptions narrow so they may serve to prove a broader and more important rule - we strive not to remove tweets on the basis of their content.”
Twitter explains how it deals with dodgy messages, including the leaking of super injunctions.
"It is not a fixed term. People haven't been sent here on some kind of sentence."
Peter Salmon, the BBC director leading the corporation's move to MediaCityUK in Salford, brushes off claims that the corporation's staff do not want to move North.
"I believe that 20 years from now the BBC will be run by people who cut their teeth in Salford."
Mark Thompson, the director general of the BBC, says those staff who do make the move could find themselves shaping the corporation's future.
“I think each sports desk could have someone solely concentrating on Twitter. They’d talk to the fans about what’s happening during the game and report on the match as it is happening."
Leading football journalist Henry Winter believes the sports desks of national newspapers could soon employ specialist Twitter reporters to keep up with the demand for instant football news.
"It is irresponsible to play on people's fears. The police budget settlement is tough but fair and, alongside the government's police reforms, will leave the force more than capable of fighting and cutting crime.”
The Home Office criticises an advertising campaign from the Police Federation complaining about budget cuts being made to forces across the UK.
"There will be 10 prisoners, none of whom will have been serving for any violent crimes. They will be vetted by the prison staff and the BBC."
A BBC spokesperson reveals that David Dimbleby is going behind bars - to host an episode of political panel programme Question Time from inside Womrwood Scrubs prison.