"Its newspapers - with one or two exceptions - are awful. Endless sub-clauses roam across prairies of newsprint in search of the point, like homesteader wagons

"Its newspapers - with one or two exceptions - are awful. Endless sub-clauses roam across prairies of newsprint in search of the point, like homesteader wagons on the Oregon trail circling around a knackered old buffalo." That's quite a claim for a man who seems to revel in that most hated journalist practice. The one of making every clause its own sentence. And every sentence its own paragraph. The result is that he—and his many fellows in this practice—seems really inordinately proud of his every sentence, as though each one of these (rather mediocre and limp, but surely not very objectionable) lines seems like it's supposed to be a punchline. And as punchlines they all fall well short of the mark, leaving me actively annoyed rather than the 'meh' I'd probably get otherwise.