Better vicious or incompetent?

Arriving at the pizzaria for lunch yesterday with my newspaper under my arm, the manager asked me, "What paper is that? We don't want any of those vicious English newspapers in here." Fortunately the Financial Times met with his approval.
The sensationalist crap that the popular British press makes up is no credit to anybody and causes damage to the national reputation of civilised stoicism.
Better the laid-back incompetence of the Portuguese press than "investigative journalism" with a habit of making things up.