Simon Thomas (presenter) 2:1 BA Hons degree in history. Having applied for the job three times, Thomas began presenting the children's programme "Blue Peter" on 8 January 1999 replacing the sacked presenter Richard Bacon. Previously he had worked as a runner at Children's BBC and the radio station LBC. During his tenure at "Blue Peter", he ran in the London Marathon twice and two Great North Runs, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and Mont Blanc, completed over 40 solo sky dives with the Royal Air Force, presented a medal at the Commonwealth Games, ran in the 60 metres sprint at the Norwich Union Indoor Athletics
Media Research Center that when politicians are involved in scandal, their party affiliation is brought up more often when they are Republican than Democrat; for example, they have said that Senator Robert Packwood's Republican affiliation was brought up in most reports about his sexual scandals, but Representative Gary Condit's Democratic affiliation was ignored when he had the same problem, that the media is sympathetic to Communism or "dictators", that media coverage of global warming is biased in favor of environmentalism, and that the media focuses on covering the negative side of the Iraq War. In 1999, the MRC reported that the network news