Just been reading an interview with Sofia Coppola, an intelligent and talented film maker.  The following description is in the opening paragraph.  'She is calm and softly spoken.  Her milky skin, cherubic lips, brilliant sparkling eyes and choppy, bobbed hair lend her an ever-youthful demeanour.'  For crying out loud, this is in a relatively intelligent magazine, not Daily Mail online.  What has happened to us?  This is an important woman with a lot to say.  What has happened to journalists?  What has happened to us?  Is this what we now expect from our interviews?  What is perhaps most upsetting, is that I always assume that these top people approve their interviews before going to print and if this is the case, why are they not saying 'hold on a minute, this is 2013, this is not what our mothers and grandmothers fought for'?  Maybe I'm disappointed.