Jon Snow claims his blogs are censored

Jon Snow, the veteran presenter of Channel 4 News, has revealed that his bosses at ITN have censored his blogs. He made his claim during a Q and A session at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, at the weekend, saying that while his employers like him to write regular online dispatches, as many as one in four of his postings is suppressed.

His remarks prompted an exclamation of shock from fellow panelist, Rosie Boycott, the former editor of the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Express, who asked: "They're censoring you?" Snow replied: "They want to use this friendly fellow who talks to his viewers. They want more and more and more. . . but what have you got to write about but your opinions?"

However, it seems some of his readers wouldn’t mind the newsman exercising a little self-censorship. When the American novelist John Updike died last week, Snow, 61, confided in his blog that having had a fairly sheltered upbringing - he is the son of an Anglican vicar - the discovery of Updike's sexually explicit novel Couples had proved a "liberating" experience.
 
To this, one reader responded: "That's quite enough of that, thank you." Another wrote: "This is already way too much information." ·