If you had no access to electronic or printed news media, how would you know what is going on in the world? We depend so much on the Fourth Estate to act as our eyes and ears, and now many of us feel we can’t trust what they say. Since 1961, the minority publication Private Eye has given us insider tidbits that don’t suit the editorial line of the big-circulation papers, and satirised public figures and popular fads - even, for some time, the gay and feminist movements. But there is a line between telling the truth with a satirical twist, and simply twisting the truth.
I agree. PE has become as p c as the rest of the main stream media. When I pointed this out to them in 2010, they told me to, quote, "fuck off".