Thanks, DMcG. We actually cross-posted in spite of the 15-minute time lag between us. I got interrupted half way through!

There are lots of hidden biases even in the best papers. Someone has decided how much prominence to give a news report, what page it goes on, how long it should be and whether it goes in the paper at all. The same applies to news bulletins on the telly. News is produced and presented to us by human beings. I can excuse factual mistakes that are made by accident with no attached agenda. I want to think that they are doing their best to present news to me in order to increase my knowledge and inform my opinion, not make my opinion for me. I won't read papers that I suspect are trying to do that. In my experience, that precludes every tabloid in this country except for the "i," and it also precludes the Daily Telegraph. As I've said before, it pays to get information from several carefully-chosen sources, not just one. If only everyone had done that before that confounded referendum, and before the US election, we wouldn't be in this bloody mess now.