Are we the weakest links?

WE print (and multi-media blogging) journalists are actually fairly intelligent, honest. Not that you'd know it from watching the latest 'celeb' edition of The Weakest Link.

I was ashamed to count myself in the same profession as the likes of Andrew Neil and Toby Young. In the first, impossibly easy, round, they not only failed to bank £5,000, they failed to bank any money at all.

They couldn't tell Hansel from Gretl, or know that the sun was at the centre of the solar system and that sundae is the dessert named after a day of the week. They didn't know Napoleon's surname was Bonaparte and thought there was banana in a Pina Colada cocktail.

No wonder Anne Robinson - wearing some fab shoes - called them "borderline stupid". I'd have left off the borderline, although I'm sure that facing Anne's icy glare must make your mind go blank.

Still, the night before, TV newsreaders and weather presenters like Dermot Murnaghan banked £5,000 in each of their first two rounds and won almost twice as much money for charity.

We like to look down upon our TV rivals. As one of the hack contestants admitted, his work involved "watching television and saying its rubbish". Even more rubbish when you're on it, mate.