The tabloids - which are consumed by a far larger and, excuse my snobbery, FAR stupider and less discerning public - knowingly lie and distort the truth all day every day for profit. Rather than defend itself, the BBC is its own harshest (and its own actual, when you consider the motivations of those attacking it) critic. The Leveson Inquiry is the most significant blow against global media evil that has ever been blown. I'm preaching to the choir with this one. What was meant to be a one paragraph intro has turned into a rant, so I'll leave that there and proceed to do what I intended with this piece - to slam the BBC