Local and national newspapers in every country, including the United States where I worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, face the same alarming prospect - readers being slowly drained off by competing leisure activities, including television, our favourite activity that consumes more of our time than anythingelse except sleeping.
But I do realize that I have witnessed up close some type of greatness, a man in a particular spot in a particular time doing something better than anyone else, better than any of the hundreds of incredibly talented people out there who are doing the same thing.