There are serious concerns about trivialisation of content and the increasing concentration of media ownership in the hands of large corporate groups.

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The review team was concerned about the "trivialisation" of cosmetic surgery - and took a dim view of reality programmes like The Only Way is Essex (TOWIE).

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The challenges which will hold India back, he writes, are the Maoist insurgency, the "insidious presence" of the Hindu right wing, degradation of the "once liberal and upright" centre, the increasing gap between the rich and the poor, trivialisation of media, the sustainability of "present patterns of resource consumption" and the instability and policy incoherence caused by multi-party governments.

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