Price Edward was correct in claiming that in the UK journalists hate success. This is said to be a carry over from the days of class structure. If you were lower middle class you envied and hated those who broke rank and succeeded in rising into upper middle class. You envied it because you could not see yourself doing the same thing. Many journalists still suffer this inferiority feeling.
Many newspapers still feel there are enough envious readers to rejoice in such feelings.
I think they are wrong. Those days are over. That may be why the Guardian lost one fifth of its readers in one year recently. There are fewer and fewer people who want to be given packaged opinions by pretentious and patronising writers. Readers want to read about positive and constructive matters not the prejudiced opinion of 'neggies'.