Got it in one
David Mitchell, in today's Observer:
But I work in the media, a field in which you get to boast about your personal ignorance as if it's insight into the popular mood.
That's this week's Golden Codfish Award Honoree sorted, no?
I also liked this, but I don't think it's quite in the same class:
The media is always desperate to find the "real" person, the unremarkable sandwich-eating, daytime TV-watching, dog-walking mortal behind no matter how important a figure. "Never mind the thing you've done that's amazing - we want to hear about the things you do that we all do." Well, in that world of celebrity Q&As, a Nobel prize-winning champion of democracy with a penchant for DLT is gold dust.
The thought in general for me connects with that whole furore over the 'getting girls into science by making it frilly and feminine' video, in terms of point thahr misst about what a thing is actually about. ('You mean, I could split the atom and not chip my nail-polish - Cool!' - aaargh.)
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