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I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The National Audit Office will be able to fully examine the BBC's finances for the first time, after weeks of negotiations between the Government and the BBC Trust reports the BBC.

The Guardian says the coalition government has pledged that the BBC's editorial independence will not be harmed by giving the National Audit Office carte blanche to investigate the corporation's books.

Radio One breakfast show DJ Chris Moyles launched an on-air tirade against the BBC on Wednesday, claiming he had not been paid for two months reports the Telegraph. The BBC reports Mr Moyles as saying matter had been blown out of proportion by the media.

The Guardian says the BBC has defended its coverage of the Papal visit after more than 750 complaints from viewers. More than half were from people who thought there was too much coverage of the visit, or that it was too favourable to Pope Benedict XVI. But others complained that the BBC had been too critical of the pontiff.

Feedback presenter Roger Bolton, who was a BBC current affairs editor in the 1980s, has written to the BBC in-house magazine Ariel rebuking Mark Thompson for saying the BBC had a "massive left-wing bias" thirty years ago, reports the Guardian.

The continuing difficulties surrounding the build up to next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi make the headlines in a number of papers as shown in the BBC newspaper review.

Links in full

• BBC | National Audit Office to get access to BBC books
• Mark Sweney | Guardian | NAO inquiry will not compromise BBC's independence
• Neil Midgley | Telegraph | Chris Moyles's 10-minute on-air tirade: 'I haven't been paid'
• BBC | DJ Chris Moyles plays down BBC pay tirade
• John Plunkett | Guardian | BBC defends coverage of pope's visit
• John Plunkett | Guardian | Veteran BBC presenter rebukes Mark Thompson over 'left-wing bias' remark
• BBC | Newspaper review

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