The old best-of-five format was compact and ideal coaches of good teams hated best-of-five, because it gave toomuch of a shot to an underdog, but that was exactly why it was perfect.
The insistence on reportage, at the expense of interpretation or even opinion, leaves the reader knowing almost toomuch of the how and where and when, but not quite enough of the why.
But the combination of recession and intensified competition from online is proving toomuch for some retailers, which is why high streets are beginning to have a gap-toothed look.