Edited sentence: A release from the Department for Culture, Media, and Sports in late 2006  reports that none of the government-appointed Trust members have participated in political activity over the preceding five years, but it does not address the potential for commercial influence or discuss how persons with enough success, knowledge and influence to be effective BBC Trust members have successfully avoided both political activity of any meaning and potential commercial or financial entanglements, especially as monies are raised both through commercial sales and programming efforts