Withjournalists digging for dirt and consultants hyping themselves to the heavens, there is a pressing need for a level-headed account of the consulting business which balances the industry's glaring failures against its successes.
This has had a remarkable effect not just on Thais but on successive generations of Western diplomats, academics and journalists who, with few exceptions, have meekly censored themselves.
Confronted with a Murdoch-owned Journal, many FT journalists might soon find themselves wishing that he had splashed his cash on the pink paper instead.