Modern English Usage part 3

“ANALOGY… What does need pointing out is unfortunately…the deadly dullness of the elaborate artificial analogy favoured by journalists…The journalist has a view upon the reorganization of the War Office & the right relations between Parliament, the Secretary of State, the Commander-in-Chief, & the minor officials. He says what he can, directly, in favour of his view ; & then, lest ‘our people’ should miss the point, he goes on to transport them into a great household or estate, & explain what confusion would result if the owner did not arrange on a particular plan the relations of majordomo, buter, cook, & footmen, or of land-agent, tenants, grooms, & gardeners. ‘Our people’ is no more familiar with majordomos & land-agents than with Commanders-in-Chief, & so he finds it well to repeat with emphasized dullness about the type what he has argued dully enough about the antitype.”

H.W. Fowler, Modern English Usage