An item in today's Times Mediapolis column stretches credulity. It registers Roger Alton's response to Tuesday's Media Guardian story claiming that he is in line to become editor of The Independent.
On the basis of Alton saying, "I'm sitting in South London trying to write a piece about skiiing and I keep getting phone calls about something that's not the case", the columnist remarks that the story was therefore "too good to be true."
I think Alton's non-denial denial suggests just the opposite.
