ABSTRACT
It is fashionable these days to question, fundamentally, what someone else is doing, and to tell him, frankly and in his own best interests, that he is not doing it very well. I may therefore seem a trifle square to question what my own profession is doing, and shall certainly be counted a complete has-been if I conclude that we are doing it not too badly. We must move with the times. Reappraisals must be agonising, investigations searching and in-depth, differences of opinion nothing less than rows, conclusions shocking at the very least. I shall try not to fail you in these things; but truth is sometimes stranger than journalism.
