It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
You're scrutinized all through your life - you're scrutinized by your family by yourself by society and your friends in a certain way shape or form.
Except for politics no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.