Do I detect a sense of desperation at The Times in trying to find paying customers for its online content?
Evidently, one of its rather lame wheezes is to cold-call people and offer them limited-term free access to its website.
But the News International marketing department functionary chose the wrong man when he called Andy Veitch on Tuesday.
Veitch happens to be a former Guardian correspondent and is a current Guardian website user who is happy to go on reading its content for free.
One mystery though. How did News Int light upon our former colleague? Surely it's not using an old Guardian staff list?
