it's called journalism

This story by Michael Petrou is nowhere mentioned on the crowded cover of our current print edition (a state of affairs I find disappointing) and, a week after its publication, has received no attention from any of the dozens of news organizations currently frothing at the mouth over, say, Ann Coulter. We like to complain in this country that there is too little original reporting about important matters deserving wider public attention, but then when significant original reporting happens we pay it too little heed.