Get back into your box. Something else missing from the Times of 1968 was anything to do with the home or emotional life. Scan the 1968 Times and you won't find a line on any of the above. It's self-indulgent, they say. Women's magazine stuff.
Newspapers are for news.
This purist view of what a newspaper should be is, I suspect, more a generational thing rather than a cultural critique. And the range of material needs careful handling. An aspiration to encompass more than news shouldn't mean a free for all. An ambition to reflect society in all its aspects shouldn't become an excuse for a cacophony of clashing tones and values. There must be a common intelligence and unity of voice.