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Three minutes after ten is a time.

A very good morning to you.

I wonder whether we can conduct conversations at moments like this in the way that we used to.

It would once have been a fairly reliable presumption that we had almost all seen some of the footage of the king and queen arriving in the United States of America to be greeted by Donald Trump and his wife.

But I don't think that's true anymore, is it? People derive their news from so many different places.

So much of it is from social media, which is, of course, algorithmed into feeding extant appetites.

So it's not as if everybody watched the 9 o'clock or the 10 o'clock news last night and

therefore saw the state visit with whoever is the latter-day equivalent of Nicholas

Wichel pontificating on the importance of the visit.

Do you know, isn't it odd that we are probably one of the greatest constants in the UK media?

I've never noticed that before.

I've never noticed that before.

Newspaper circulation continues to plummet.

Television news programs are nowhere near the required viewing that they used to be.

You've got more noses in the

trough fighting for fewer and fewer eyes. And we continue to rise. We continue to go up. We haven't

changed much over the years. We still deal in more or less the same stuff. We talk about the news.

You give me a ring. I have a chat with you. You move along. Someone else comes on.

It's really weird. I've never actually spotted that before.

News media in particular is in an extraordinary state of flux and largely declined, and yet here we are still

doing what we do. But doing it, I suppose, in slightly different ways, because I would once,

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