.. it's a good article, by a smart reporter (I know him personally, as it happens),
Funnily enough I know the journalist too!
He is indeed a 'smart reporter' and wrote some of the most important reports from the Balkan conflicts in the early 1990s.
However he started on World in Action which was the TV equivalent of the Daily Mail and the piece does have a tabloid feel about it including some pretty pointless quotes.
It does however, have a good 'human interest; feel about it too.
SoS