America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.