Just a bit of fun

We love the lurches in the Media Guardian 100. And it's understandable; the panel of judges (apart from the Guardian hometeam of Sabbagh and Plunkett) is brand new. Last year we had Peter Barron (Google) Lorraine Heggesey (then "a consultant"), agent Anita Land, and venture capitalist Dharmash Mistry.

This year we have Sir Peter Bazalgette, (surely this sort of judging is too frivolous for a Chairman of The Arts Council ?) Carla Buzasi, UK editor of the Huffington Post, advertising exec Helen Calcraft, Jim Gray (until this year editor of C4 News) Simon Kelner, ex-editor of The Indie, and Mike Soutar, of Shortlist magazines.

And I love the bits where a boss is behind an employee. Helen Boaden, Director of BBC News, will be pleased about a rise from 34 in 2011, to 22, but puzzled as to why she's deemed less influential than Robert Peston, up from 39 to 21.

Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC1, and perhaps an applicant for Controller of Vision, will be delighted with a rise of one, to 13. Roger Mosey, acting Controller of BBC Vision, will be puzzled by a ranking of 98 - a new entry; at least he's ahead of James Murdoch.

Tim Davie, Director of Audio & Music, will be pleased as punch that, in a year when he failed to make the last four for DG, he's gone up from 61 to 39. (Ed Richards, who did make the final interviews, drops from 55 to 64).  In other radio news, Chris Evans is a new entry, at 75.  Ceri Thomas, Editor of Today, makes it at 70, not quite as high as Rod Liddle's 31 back in 2001.

Sir Peter Bazalgette was once in charge of the seminal BBC1 cooking programme Food and Drink, where he claims he invented "the celebrity chef".  Last year, Jamie Oliver stood at Number 48; this year 67.