I would be failing in my duty of shameless self promotion if I didn’t draw your attention to this nugget from Jack Shafer in the Washington Post:

As Slate‘s media critic, I begin most days by checking what my British colleagues are saying about journalism. Thanks to the time-zone difference, they’re several hours ahead of U.S. sites such as Romenesko in collecting news about the news business, and they do it from their own unique perspective. The Guardian‘s industrious Roy Greenslade does a great job of packing the whole world of journalism into his blog.

The best Brit-crit is Adrian Monck whose new book, “Can You Trust the Media?,” written with Mike Hanley, rips what they call the culture’s “trust obsession.” Beware the newspapers, magazines, TV news operations and other media institutions that crave the audience’s trust, they counsel. It’s just a con they’re running so they can sell your eyeballs to advertisers. Likewise, spurn those who pine for more “trustworthy” media institutions. Individual reporters and columnists may be trustworthy, but the only dependable way to tame the public’s doubts is to give them access to the raw data from which journalism is produced. (The book hasn’t been published in the United States yet, so try Amazon.co.uk.)