This reads like something written and conceived in a different, better world. The reasons why many of these rules are not followed in this world are two: Time and Money. I speak from experience. But then I suppose another item on the list might be: "A journalist should never worry about time or money, and in fact be superhuman". (Via Anil Dash.)

Perhaps they should try eating better: "UK consumers are [...] more likely than their European counterparts to miss breakfast: in 2003, British skipped on average 113 breakfasts a year per person, and Datamonitor forecasts this will increase to almost 120 in 2008. In comparison, the French skipped 77 and Germans 72, while the southern Europeans in Italy (41) and Spain (31) appear to be clinging more tightly to traditional eating patterns." (Look at the photo from two posts ago to see some Spaniards clinging to a traditional eating pattern.) Is breakfast slowly disappearing, then? Is it the eternal hasta luego to Kelloggs? I may be wrong about this, but I'd say I skipped a maximum of ten breakfasts in 2003 - though most of them weren't exactly what you'd call leisurely. Average time: probably about 3 minutes. Ah, the wonderful world of stats. And there's this, too, from the same site.

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