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With different advice, I might have chosen to pursue a career in journalism rather than teaching. Despite going down the education road, I welcomed and enjoyed dealings with journalists, particularly Herald stalwarts like Barclay McBain and my former pupil, the late Calum Macdonald. If anything, my regard for the profession has grown, despite the 2019 survey placing journalists ahead of politicians but behind car salesmen in the league of public trust. That’s perhaps understandable, given some spectacular press own goals. Confidence in journalists and the press in general was badly shaken by phone hacking and the Milly Dowler scandal. The public’s thirst for celebrity gossip and sensationalism is no defence. Yet, it should be remembered that it was The Guardian newspaper, not the police, that uncovered the scale of the phone hacking scandal and the payments made to corrupt public officials.

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