Dear Sir,
In your story of the 22/01/2007 "Global survey shows business has regained people's trust" you repeatedly talk about "the people" or "the public" (and flag it in your headline) while offhandedly admitting that it is based on a survey of "3,100 opinion leaders", also described as "top earners with an interest in politics and economics." When did "top earners" become a representative sample of "the people"?

My calendar says 2007, yours seems to be stuck in the 18th century: it has been a while since we could discount the opinions of most of the population quite so easily.

In the context of the Edelman survey cum sales exercise on which the story is based I believe the headline should have read "Global survey shows business has regained stock holding public's trust".

YOUR PRESENT HEADLINE SEEMS TO COME DIRECTLY FROM AN ORWELLIAN BOOK. It shamelessly states what (money) and who (people with money), matters in today's world just deleting anybody else. This is a troubling vision which goes a long way towards explaining the rise of "populism" that you have been lamenting in recent columns.

too strong?

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude