Democracy can be saved - by following Ebay's example
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1474044,00.html
John Naughton
Sunday May 1, 2005
The Observer
Amid all the ponderous guff in the election campaign about 'trust', one
interesting fact has been strangely absent from the discussion. We are
all agreed that politicians rank low in public esteem, down there with
estate agents, property developers and other kinds of spiv. But there
is another occupational group that ranks even lower than these
creatures of the deep.
I refer, of course, to journalists. We are despised by the public - yet
the fact that we shape the public's attitude toward politicians remains
unremarked. Thus we have a really weird vicious circle.
John Naughton
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