Jon Snow delivered a blockbuster of a lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, some of it in full hair-shirt mode. Grenfell Tower, he said, had demonstrated that today’s journalism lay “comfortably with the elite, with little awareness, contact or connection with those not of the elite”. He felt “on the wrong side of the terrible divide that exists in present-day society and in which we are all, in this hall, major players. We can accuse the political classes for their failures, and we do. But we are guilty of them ourselves.”

Well, of course there are lessons from Grenfell (including the hollowing-out of local news). But guilt – amid waves of diversity targets – can be overdone.

Journalism, like many other jobs (say, nursing) has become an almost exclusively graduate calling over the years – though with rock-bottom wages, at the local level, that most nurses would jib at. It is, nevertheless, a kind of elite role in Grenfell terms.

When Jon (educated Winchester Pilgrim’s School via Ardingly) looks around his own C4 News studio, who does he see? Matt Frei, educated at Westminster School and St Peter’s College, Oxford. Krishnan Guru-Murthy, educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Blackburn, and Hertford College, Oxford. Cathy Newman, educated at Charterhouse and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. With Fatima Manji, lately of the LSE, waiting in line.

Is this some covert cause for shame? No: the camera sees a team of formidable professionals, experienced people – largely free from commercial pressures – who can uncover stories and pursue unpopular causes. They are not representatives of one class or another. They are trained journalists: and that training means an ability to dig and discover wherever the news takes them.