The most pessimistic profession?-Journalism

Who is most pessimistic about the UK’s economic prospects over the next 12 months? “The most miserable bastards in Britain are in fact the journalists, 96 per cent of whom think Britain is going to get worse,” says Ben Page, managing director of Ipsos MORI. “Out of all the audiences we look at – businesses themselves, consumers, employers, the people who are most negative are the journalists.”

writes Brian Groom over at the FT.

Who suspects that the reason is

the sceptical attitude journalists routinely need as they try to get at the truth – summed up by the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman as: “Why is this lying bastard lying to me?” It does not encourage a rosy perspective.