Don't let us kid you CarolC. We have our big fat share of crap media in Britain. Rupert "Born-again" Murdoch owns ---and controls-- the lowest gutter-pamphlet in the western hemisphere, the Sun. He also owns the London Times. It goes "tabloid" very shortly---probably with a new page three naked lady, like the "Sun", to titillate the deprived. The "Telegraph" was till recently the property of Conrad Black, the character who renounced citizenship of his native land, Canada, in order to fulfill Tony Blair's desire to make him "Lord" Black. Funny thing---Tony being friendly with those two...
But, like America, we have the sad proportion of our population who actually take the drivel such publications produce as "the news".