There has been so much rubbish written up in the papers over the years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
Anything on paper is obsolete!
A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.
I think Russell Brand's books should be criticised for being rubbish - but it is true that there's a professional class of opinion-former who has a financial interest in their job not being taken away.
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.
There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.