Decidedly the media are having great difficulty in finding favour in the eyes of increasing numbers of political leaders and those around them. Special mention has to go, yet again, to President Trump, who, never one to shy away from an outrageous comment, has just promised to buy the New York Timesto silence that unworthy newspaper – prompting a vitriolic condemnation by Pascal Bruckner: “Trump is like Nero in Micky Mouse land: a combination of the vulgarity of the upstart and the...