Last Tuesday’s court evidence revealing a Sun journalist referring to his own readers as plebs didn’t stop the red top splashing on Emily Thornberry’s supposed snobbery later in the week:

'Only Here For The Sneers'; why Labour law chief Emily Thornberry resigned tonight – our p1 tmrw pic.twitter.com/vThpQJdfvK — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 20, 2014

But evidence continues to mount of the contempt for readers in some quarters of the newsroom. Former Sun showbiz hack Marina Hyde:

I remember one discussion about an interview that someone had done with a reader. “What was the house like?” the editor sniggered with a grimace. “Don’t tell me – sticky carpet. Did you wipe your feet on the way out?”

Hyde goes on to reveal that another editor, Rebekah Brooks, insisted on holding executive away days at the same holiday camps to which the newspaper sent its readers on bargain promotions:

The events were viewed with dread, with senior staff ordered to immerse themselves in their surroundings, as though they were places of positively Martian otherness.

This certainly makes a change from Brooks’ personal travel habits: flying to Venice from Oxford airport for lunch at Harry’s bar and a spot of sightseeing before jetting back to London in time for dinner at Wiltons in Jermyn Street.