journalists who staff the nation’s weekly and monthly magazines and newspapers? While it is impossible to generalise about all the members of one profession, it is certainly true that they are a far cry from the received image of journalists as pot-bellied, middle-aged men, smoking as many cigarettes as they can cadge, and swilling whatever drinks are put in front of them, eager to accept an invitation to a high-priced hotel or restaurant in order to indulge their voracious appetites for high living.