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British journalists
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For a mild–mannered people who are forever begging your pardon and saying "please" and "sorry," British journalists are a surprisingly macho lot. The British media may not have anything on the scale of Watergate but that is because for all its warts British politics remains relatively less corrupt than across the pond. In other words, the British political class has not given its journalists enough to expose something which would sit in the same class as Watergate. Yet it has had its share of political scalps. At the best of times, there is a media frenzy abroad, fed partly by the demands of the 24–hour rolling TV news and partly by a compulsive desire on the part of journalists to do "in" a government which lives by "spin" and will go to any length to use them to mislead the country. Beneath the , there is perpetual tension with the two constantly wrestling to out spin each other, resulting in a loss of for both. Opinion polls show that an overwhelming majority of people do not believe a word of what either the media or the government says.
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