Media Bites: Today’s UK media news

Fayed wins injunction against BBC: A high court judge has ordered the BBC to pull a TV investigation into Mohamed Al Fayed’s tax affairs after granting the Harrods owner an 11th-hour injunction. Fayed blocks BBC tax probe Multimillion dollar TV brand targets children worldwide: Fox Kids has unveiled a corporate revolution that will result in children in countries as far apart as Israel and Brazil feasting on an action-adventure diet

Social network with your paper, Sir?

So you thought online social networking didn’t have a business model outside of the sheer genius of ‘pay another 10 bucks to network with people who’s email adresses you already have’? Oh, yee of little faith. It turns out online networking isn’t about Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, or other such esoteric party games. It’s about classified advertising. Still not convinced? Imagine the Guardian buying Friendster.com. Well, that at least

Bluejacking awareness approaching 10 per cent?

In other words, it’s the context and the location that matters – getting Bluejacked at the shops is “ok”, it’s SMS spam as you’re having dinner which is a bigger pain. While 82 per cent of 500 respondents they surveyed outside two major London stations said that unsolicited commercial messages sent to their mobiles would be unacceptable, “68 per cent would welcome the opportunity to receive targeted promotional messages or