One of the best examples of this mismatch between reporting and assuming a shared political stance arose when the European constitution was rejected by the French and the Dutch last year. One ends up adopting a positionas has, for example, the Independentof being not so much a newspaper but a 'viewspaper' and this dispenses with any claim to objectivity in favour of the polemical role.

The news then ceases to be an attempt to present a version of the truth, and more an effort to fit events to a view. When those opinions drift into the news columns, implicitly or explicitly. He argues that the growth of the promotion of opinions, of taking a position whether it be leftist, liberal or conservative, comes with a price One of them, John Lloyd, who has long been associated with the Financial Times, worries about how the media wield their undoubted power. What is new, however, is the seriousness with which even very liberal journalists are treating them. Those who think about these matters at all feel that the media should return to their traditional role of factual reporting rather than publishing views too often disguised as news. The thesis is that with such heavy and broad influence, the citizen's influence is correspondingly reduced and the incentives for engagement weakened. Some of those canvassed felt that in recent years the media have acted more like a political party with a clear right or left bias and that that turn of events is largely due to the concentration of ownership in the hands of a very few who have their own agendas. The combination of a media lacking diversity and an apathetic electorate is not, the report concludes, good for democracy. 'significant unelected influence on government policy and decisions',Īnd, in particular, the concentration of ownership of the media. Baroness D'Souza: My Lords, the report of the Power inquiry chastises the media for having,

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