The 'liberal' press shamed

The British novelist James Flint reviews Noam Chomsky's Failed States. He begins with an apt reference to Roth's The Plot Against America. It is a sober summary without innuendo, sarcasm or the usual accusations of "anti-Americanism" (indeed, Flint suggests Chomsky is merely following the real democratic tradition of the USA). You'd expect to see this in the so-called liberal press. Instead they produced nonsense from the astonishingly inept Peter Beaumont and the repellent Emma Brockes. Flint's review is actually in the decidedly-conservative Daily Telegraph. The world doesn't seem quite so deranged anymore.