Geoff Hoon is very cross with the media, it appears.  He believes it is partly to blame for the political disengagement of the electorate.  The BBC reports him as saying, 

"There is not a media in the developed Western world that is as dismissive or as aggressive or as intrusive as ours." 

He added:

"Increasingly politicians don't trust the media to provide a fair account of what we do."

and,

"The biggest spinners in our society are journalists. You only have to look at any day's newspapers to see that.... From the experience of dealing with a lot of specialists, the specialists are by far the worst."

Oh dear, he is not serious is he?  I think a reality check is well overdue.

I am going to enjoy reading the blogger and press responses to this latest piece of complete nonsense from Mr Hoon.