Hello, three minutes after ten years of time, and you are listening to James O'Brien on Elbe.

Can I adjust my muff? Do you mind? It'll make a really bad noise, but it's just, it's just, it's just irritated. All right, I apologise for this, right, ready, it's going to be crackly. There we go. Was it awful? How bad was that? I just feel more at peace now with the studio. I feel, you know, this is a bit like messy doing up his shoelaces before you've got to have it right.

It's got to have it right.

It's got to feel right in the, uh, in the zone.

Three minutes after ten is the time.

Okay.

If this was the first day of industrial action by Aslef, the train driver's union. How big a story would it be?

What do you think? Okay, we can't know for sure. Well, we can actually. We could go back to

the first day of industrial action by Aslef, the train driver's union, and measure how much coverage

it got. But would you agree with me at least, before we

dig down ever deeper into this issue? Would you agree with me at least that the coverage would be

considerably bigger than it actually is? Here's the weirdest thing about my job is that I don't know who's

in charge of the news. I never have.

There are instincts at play. There are trends and sort of movements. You get the, you know that,

for example, the mail in the express are going to have more or less the same front page every day. And I don't, even when I worked there, I didn't understand why. I worked for the Express when it was, I was going back a million years and I wasn't there very long. But it was a left wing newspaper at the time, would you believe? But in terms of what, like the show busy stuff or, they knew, people on the news desk knew what the big stories

were. Now, the press association puts a feed-through to all the national newspapers and sometimes

the story demands high levels of attention. There are some days, of course, where every newspaper

has a different front page. And for good or for ill, broadcasters follow the still follow up to a point

the lead set by the newspapers, because the first thing they do when they get to work at

four o'clock in the morning is have a look at what the newspapers say, and increasingly the

websites and always the feed from PA. But who decides how big a story is? I mean, ultimately, who decides how big a story is?

There's so many different cooks with a, with a spoon in the broth. I don't know when or why

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