MSNBC anchor refuses Paris Hilton release as lead story

I caught the final few minutes of today's Dateline London , on the approach to 12noon on BBC News 24.

They were all talking about Iraq and stuff.

When presenter Gavin Esler (sp?) had to interrupt the panel to wrap up the show as they were running out of time, he quipped: "I'm sorry that we didn't have time to talk about Paris Hilton today"!

Well it may not have been the most perfectly framed shot but I assumed that was because the presenter's exact movements couldn't have been planned. From the looks of it it was a high angle shot from a camera a long way away, to have the shredder so central and with little "shocked" camera movement must have been planned. And, of course, if they were really spontaneously rebelling against the producer why on earth would the director have cut to that shot?

I'm waiting for the day when any news about Paris Hilton ends with the newscaster saying "and this is what I think about this woman", followed by a very loud fart.