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Not at all - I'm aware that, prior to Kirsty Young and five news, there would have been next to no chance of anyone else doing such a thing.

But, I'll be honest, for the purposes of a short trail, I don't see any problem with them perching Emily, or any other presenter, on a desk, just to tell us what's going to be reported later on that evening. I find out just as much with her legs on show as I would without

Make sure you read tomorrow's Daily Mail when they go back a few years and have a dig at Michael Buerk for wearing stockings and suspenders during a news bulletin.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vTLmuPufD4s

Crikey, Jeremy Vine looks scary in drag...

thats actually really shocking and scary. Please excuse me whist I go burn my eyes out...

That performance already burned mine out for me!

The Daily Mail's put a poll up on its website to ask if Emily showed too much leg and 89% say no...

You can tell it's the Silly Season can't you

But they'll focus on the 11% who said yes:

You can see what's coming:

1 IN 10 LICENSE FEE PAYERS SAY BBC SEXUALISES NEWS

And a columnist, perhaps Steven Glover or Melanie Phillips:

"The BBC is now less focussed on young boys being shot dead, human tragedy in floods and fires, and the international stock market wobble, than it is on titillating and tantalising the male chattering classes with Emily Maitilis, perched seductively on the end of a desk. Ban this filth now.... end the debauchery.... society's loose morals...."

What, pray tell me, is BBC News doing now in terms of its employment policy that it wasn't doing 20 or 30 years ago?

Then, as now, there was an array of attractive female newsreaders in their mid-30s - Angela Rippon, Anna Ford, Moira Stuart - fast forward to 2007 and just the faces have changed. So why is this an issue? And, as has been pointed out on the Daily Mail's website itself, Angela Rippon displayed far more flesh in a certain Morecame and Wise Christmas special than Emily Maitlis stands "accused" of...

Have they tried watching ITV1 at 6:30? Or perhaps Channel 5?

ITV's reporting of events in Liverpool yesterday was outrageously tabloid and sensationalist, though admittedly few would disagree that this latest tragedy has sent shockwaves throughout the country.

Pretty good on a local level, I have to say. Granada Reports gave the first half of the show over to the story, and didn't do half badly. I'll admit, I was expecting total tabloid coverage, but they do seem to manage bigger, harder stories, rather much better than the usual dross.

Somehow, I preferred it to NWT's irritating habit of introducing every report with a silent sting. THAT seemed more sensationalist somehow.