Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, this week suggested that liberalising local media ownership rules might help to create a new network of genuinely local television news services. Mr Hunt has a long record of promoting local television over the large scale regional version that has existed in Britain since 1955. He believes people want local news and he promotes it as a service to democracy. Is he naive? Is he putting the interests of commercial news companies ahead of pluralism of ownership and diversity of content? Journalism.co.uk asked for my opinion. You can read it here.