POINTS TO PONDER

Media Watch came across this observation from Jeremy Taylor, which was posted one day after the general election.

"Points to ponder: (condensed)
The entire corps of journalists needs to go back to school. Based on this election campaign, it seems that not one journalist in the country understands what questions to ask, or how to extract truthful answers. And not one editor has the guts to insist on either. The things that politicians get away with is twice as astonishing (e.g. the "Head to Head" interviews in which pure government propaganda was brilliantly passed off as neutral information and informed debate)... if journalists aren't up to their job, what you get is a population mired in ignorance, muddle and superstition."