Matthew Parris

Dishonesty in television may arise from lofty principle: but it still bears the devil’s fingerprint

A columnist should rejoice, I suppose, when an issue he has spotted early and returned to often suddenly catches fire, becoming the hot topic of the season. I started writing about dishonesty in television about ten years ago, wrote often about it for the Times, and made a programme for BBC Radio 5 Live with precisely this focus.

• From magazine issue: 01 September 2007