Editor attacked for advertorial wraparound

Journalists at the Sydney Morning Herald were so upset by their paper carrying a four-page wraparound, without any declaration that it was advertorial, that they held protest meetings. Now the paper's editor, Alan Oakley, has taken responsibility for running the supplement on Friday, which marked the previous day's maiden commercial flight of the Airbus A380 jet into Sydney. But his explanation that it was a purely editorial decision has not satisfied staff at the Fairfax paper who believe he should be more vigilant in defending editorial values against commercial interests. (Via The Australian)