Due to plane delays I didn't reach Perugia in time to see the discussion involving Alastair Campbell and Carl Bernstein. But I'm told that they seemed to agree on almost everything. Ethan Zuckerman gives a flavour of their discussion here.
Campbell evidently joked that Bernstein's worst legacy from his famous Watergate revelation that every story now had "gate" appended to it (as in Squidgygate, Camillagate , Bertiegate and Cheriegate).
I'm sure that the great journalistic investigator and the great journalistic spin-doctor did get on well since they had dinner together last night. Maybe it wasn't quite a love fest, but they evidently liked each other.
Anyway, I have to prepare - for possibly the hundredth time? - to explain why newspapers are dying in the west...
