The Politics and Media blog has an entry which includes a quotation from Martin Linton about the relationship between the politics and the media.
Martin Linton has been on both sides of the barricades. He was a journalist for the Guardian before becoming a Member of Parliament. "I'm afraid a lot of journalists have a deeply ingrained desire to do politicians down and to interpret everything they do in a snide and over-cynical light, maybe because journalism is one of the few professions which is trusted even less than politicians. There's no point in lecturing journalists. It just makes them even more paranoid. But don't you think it would be good for the ordinary citizen if there was a source of simple straightforward information - not comment - from the Government that was unmediated by the media?"
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