Some of my best friends are journalists, as is my wife. It's not that they are stupid or out of touch or sloppy. There are three things that hobble them: To be

Some of my best friends are journalists, as is my wife. It's not that they are stupid or out of touch or sloppy. There are three things that hobble them: To be a professional of journalism is to be an amateur at everything. Your powers of explanation greatly depend on the explanatory skills of your sources. Hurry up, deadline's coming... and rewrite it with more punch. Take out all those useless technical details.