I read her book on its own terms and I enjoyed it a lot. I liked her honesty. I admired her commerical success with the kind truthful and unpretentious writing I aspire to myself. Joyce is someone who really rubs many media folk the wrong way. They're living in concrete filing boxes wired into a world that mostly exists only as electronic data on their CRT screens.
Few humans are as well-informed as media workers.
Yet they have to create absolute junk based on conventionally accepted lies. Some people can handle this. They like the good parts of being in the media enough to discount the bad parts, which are not all that bad. Others are very angry. Now here's Joyce.