John Deacon writes: >It is funny, though, that in other areas of the press, when you know >a subject well, you realise quite often how much is shallow nonsense. Particularly if you've ever been interviewed. >Whenever I read anything about Spanish tourism in the area where I live >it is usually wrong ... from the price of a hire car to that of a bottle >of wine. This is so commonplace to the point that one realises the UK >press have something against Spanish tourism or rather it's customers (I'm >not in that sort of place, by the way, and that's quite another subject). I am reminded of the dictum that more or less goes "Never attribute to malice what is likely simple incompetence". len.