We live in an age when the old media claim to be the voices of calmness and reason amid the storm, comparing themselves favourably with the lawless frontier towns and torch-wielding Twittermobs of social media.
What a moral chasm there is between the hopping madness of the Griffin-mauling Twittermob – which spent the past 24 hours calling on the cops to arrest Griffin for allegedly threatening to unleash a “gay hate lynch mob” – and the level-headedness of one of the men who would have been a victim of this alleged mob.