As a former journalist, I could only agree with this statement (below) from Wright and Bird. Of course, it’s ironic that the media is barely better trusted than politicians. And the non-MSM replacement is even more incredulous.

As a Christian, I chuckled at the very Australianesque backhander in the last line, which also, sadly, is all too true.

‘(…the news media assume that the task of holding authorities to account belongs to them, often thereby setting themselves up as a new kind of ‘authority’. They thus, having taken over the Church’s vocation, regularly delight both in reporting the Church’s follies and failings – of which there have tragically been many – and in downgrading Christian practice to the status of a curious minority hobby, which is of course how many Christians appear to understand their faith).’

From Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies by N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird.