Since no one who has wielded unaccountable power is ever happy to suddenly find themselves being held to account, it comes as no surprise that the media is now squealing like a stuck pig.
And so the media has reaped what it sowed. The media legitimated and perpetuated the Sixties radicals’ critique of authority. In doing so, however, it sowed the seeds of its own loss of authority. Since some of those seeds turned out to be dragons’ teeth, the media is now reaping the whirlwind.
“Question authority! Er, but not us!”