Richard Harmon

And they've got every right to do that.

And we've got to expect that.

What has changed is the social media aspect of this.

And there is this sort of...

extra-parliamentary lynch mob that sits outside the politicians.

And I know a lot of MPs who are just as concerned about that as I am, because the mob is quite capable of turning on them just as quickly as it turned on Mikey Sherman.

I think this is a very good question.

We've seen the last trust media survey improve.

Everybody in the media welcomed that.

I'm sure Paul Goldsmith, the Minister of Broadcasting, because he's been going on and on about trust.

And you're trying to use it as a bit of a blowtorch on R&Z.

So that improvement in the survey was welcomed.

What's happened now is three major events to erode that trust.

The resignation of Mikey, the BSA being chopped.

and I guess the government and Seymour's attacks on the media.

All these three things have led to an undoing of that survey, in my view.

It's really disappointing.

Overall, it's a bad thing.

Now, I say that with somebody who used to be very irritated by the BSA.

They take up a lot of broadcasting executives' time.