Do you watch it as often as you used to (if you ever did at all)? It seems on a pretty dramatic decline these days. Apart from threatening to disappear up its own televisual anus via those wince-inducing 'If it wasn't for you guys at Sky' self-promoting ads that they started running incessantly, and a risible inability to understand that the 'breaking news' banner starts to look silly after several days on from when the news 'broke,' they now have the increasingly absurd Kay Burley bumbling from one botched interview to the next, and a chief political correspondent, Adam Boulton, who seems to be re-enacting Peter Finch's performance in Network. Oh yes, and the channel still hasn't explained why it allowed Max Clifford to host his own one-off 'chat show' (featuring only those who were currently on his books) a while ago. And on top of all of this, OFCOM must be getting sick of all the complaints. BBC News 24, in contrast, looks to me to be admirably calm and reliable these days, and had a very good General Election.

That clip of Boulton going for Alistair Campbell is quite something. Annoying as Campbell can be, it reeks of Boulton getting angry because the political game is not going his/Murdoch's way.

I fear for his sanity, as this was not a one-off.

I used to watch Sky News when I lived in Hungary, as my satellite dish couldn't get BBC World. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole now though. It's like the Daily Mail on tv. Yuck.

And here's the awful Kay Burley:

I find Sky News quite nauseous - all those flashing banners across the screen (and BBC News is getting that way too).

The precious egos on Sky remind me of a cross between the characters in the films, China Syndrome and Network

Kay Burley is a joke.

Who do these people think they are? Their self-righteousness is beyond belief.

There's an element of "Tiswas" about this. Made me smile. Burley never lets anyone finish a sentence so this reeks of karma for me.

Typical: after praising the Beeb's news channel, I noticed that rather irritating geeky young man called Lizo Mzimba, who has just popped up at the Classical Brits to inform us that 'classical music has been around for many many years before pop music'. Good grief!

I've been predicting for yonks..on here and elsewhere. The wheels are going to fall of the Murdoch charabang when he's called to his maker (although bear in mind his mum is 100 !).

Witness James Murdoch's meltdown the other day in the Independent's editor's office.

Peter Finch Prunella..what a great performance that was in Network.

I read in a biog of Marlon Brando that Finch had an affair with Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier !

I remember Adam Boulton when he was a local TV reporter. I could tell he would end up somewhere like Sky because he was the master of sensationalism even then. Reporting on someone's first appearance in Magistrates Court he said "When the defendant was asked if he understood the charges he answered YES!" putting so much emphasis on the word YES as though it was an admission of guilt. I found it quite amusing, but back then I didn't realise how much influence the wording of a media report had over the populace or how massive the false allegation industry would become.