Mr Rosen is just one of many media watchers who think it is time to release journalists from the straitjacket of pretending that they do not have opinions—what he calls the “view from nowhere”.
He put my jacket on me when we got to the door and I got the giggles because he couldn't get my arms into my sleeves, and when he did, it was the wrong way round, like a straitjacket.
And what I'm told is part of the presentations that the coaches have been giving is showing them all these opportunities that were out there to find a different way out of that straitjacket.
I do hear you saying, however, that the genre, and especially as the genre was understood in this period, 1950 to 1980, let's say, was a kind of a straitjacket, too.
And the whole, comprising all its words in their relations to and reactions upon each other, says something that can never be confined within the straitjacket of propositions.