Why do the public dislike journalists so much; treating them as they would the sanitation workmen in the days before sewerage made their jobs redundant? The answer to that question might be that they are engaged in the most partisan of worlds, the world of politics and whatever they say is going to insult someone’s opinion.
I say ‘might be’ the answer because that is not the reason they are disliked.
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