Wilfully blind

I don't think I have seen the mainstream media so outraged about anything as when the Church of England synod failed to approve the measure to appoint women bishops. The moment Penny Marshall on ITV reported live to the 6.30 news it was evident that there was going to be no journalistic neutrality on this subject. Her tone was angry and the words “disaster” and “disastrous” kept appearing in her seemingly unscripted report, but she was just the first of many such tirades. There has been a ras...