The larger question is whether a craftsman can be blamed for the misuse of a tool that he has constructed
Too true!
There was a Editor at one paper who was notorious for using poor M Roget to "punch up" copy ... reporters were forever running to him with dictionary definitions to prove that the word used was the correct one!
The article was interesting and I think part of the object may have been twofold : to stir up some talk and to make a few bucks! So, if those two are true he succeeded.
wow