A poll from last year found that just 31 percent of the British public said they trust the media, a fall of 6 percent in a year. This puts the media class at a level of trust somewhere between politicians and burglars in the public’s eyes.
Still, any British hacks reading this can console themselves with one thing: at least most of our media does not cloak itself in the mantle of the utmost righteousness and hold itself out as some sort of priestly class.
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