People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

