Lenin said, "People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics". I think we'd all agree with Vlad on that one. Nevertheless, you have to give the British people credit for seeing through the latest deceitful attempt by goverrnment to whitewash a sensitive matter.
About the only good thing to come out of all this is that the Tory press are squirming as much as the Tory party. The fact is they hate the BBC and if their party was in power, they'd be calling for nothing short of castration. Instead they're having to accept that the Beeb is still the most trusted news source in Britain. Here's a paragraph taken from a another Telegraph article:
"Taken as a whole, the YouGov survey demonstrates yet again that, however much most people claim to distrust journalists in general, they trust BBC journalists far more than politicians."
The author of the article may well have added "or journalists from any other organisation".
Posted by Joe at January 30, 2004 03:45 PM