The only mission of many media commentators seems to be to fill the space or time alotted to them, and follow the preferences of their employers.

But my point was that the forty economists who wrote that letter weren't media commentstors, unless everyone who writes a letter to the papers is a media commentator. Or for that matter, any of us when we post on the Mudcat.

Women's carriages in the old days didn't mean men only carriages, but mixed carriages (or typically, mixed compartments), and the same would presumaly apply if they were revived. An excellent idea.