decide whether hancock is being straightforward about coronavirus today but his performance at the bryan leveson inquiry was widely seen as protecting the interests of britain's media all agog like rupert murdoch and the barclay brothers and today amidst a global pandemic britain's newspapers continue to be the least trusted across a european survey of $33.00 countries the united kingdom is below malta and north of macedonia according to your a barometer in the past few days posing questions about what role inarguably captured media plays when tens of thousands of killed by disease britain of course is also one of the most an equal countries on that list and some media oligarchy may be feeling today that they're like 1st class passengers. on a sinking ship that's the title of a new book by new york sociologist professor richard lachman and i caught up with him to ask him about his book some titled elite politics and the decline of great power as richard welcome to going underground to tell me about the 1st class passengers in the sinking ship ok well this is a book that tries to explain why it i