Golliwog row: Mad, or just morally muddled? – Telegraph.
It has been such an odd week that I have even found Libby Purves amusing for the first time ever. Normally, I find her smug mumsiness infuriating. A thought came back to me, as I read her "Man from Mars" piece, that has been occurring to me all week. What if the journalism about the economic crisis is as hysterical and inaccurate as that about the "snow event?" What if the journalists are striving as hard to make it "a story" as they did the meteorological circumstances of this week?
Perhaps I am having a late onset of optimism. However, I have long known that journalism (even specialised journalism) about my own field of expertise is always so utterly wrong that mere ignorance on the part of the journalists scarcely suffices to explain it. So why do I assume that there is any merit in their effusions about the subjects I know less well?
The Last Ditch by Tom Paine 
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