Our chattering arts-educated class fails to make the grade

THE ding-dong between the media and politics has been going on for nearly three weeks now, since Pat Rabbitte asked the question on Newstalk, “Where is this constant denigration of politics leading to?”

In truth, it’s less of a ding-dong than a dong-dong. The forum is the media and media own the media so the winner is, you’ve guessed it, the media.

I thought the media could not defend the media any more, but when the weekend newspapers brought another volley of articles in defence of the media, the cork blew out of my bottle.