Floating down to Camelot

Then let's blame pop-postmodernism and the prevalent belief that as everything is a construction it doesn't matter whether the reporter reconstructs it or not, as truth is subjective... but it appears to me that a large proportion of the population don't know to question what they read or see; one of the great experiences which I took away from the post-1485 Arthuriana conference I attended in 2004 was talking to the media studies lecturers there, for whom teaching classes of people who have just scraped into higher education about how the adverts they saw on television last night work to persuade, or discussing the success of the Harry Potter books (or less celebrated bestsellers), is to give people a last chance at seeing beyond the surface; often, they think, with results, but then they would say that.