Never let the truth....

get in the way of a good column. The Indy's media columnist Stephen Glover doesn't think it matters if fellow columnists make predictions that turn out to be wildly wrong:

If they were careful and calculating machines, writing arid, cautious pieces for the comment pages of The Financial Times, they would not be so free with their prophecies. They would also be far less readable.

Glover's point that "Only a fool would read a columnist to discover what is going to happen" does rather beg the question why columnists claim that they know what is going to happen.

Declaring an interest

In the Independent, Stephen Glover takes issue with a column in the Evening Standard last week by Roy Greenslade.

Having criticised Greenslade for not declaring that he also writes for the Guardian, Glover says:

I am sure he cannot be in cahoots with Denis O'Brien, the Irish billionaire, who is stalking this newspaper's highly profitable parent company, and says he will close The Independent if he ever gets his hands on it.

Another example of accusing someone without coming out and saying it.