Harding: hot or not?

The good people of Gawker have got ever so slightly hot under the collar over James Harding's appointment as editor of the Times. "Insanely hot biz editor to helm London Times" is the headline on the Gawker story. Not everyone agrees, though. "You people have some weird ass taste in men," posts one visitor to the site, while another suggests "He looks like he has lots of back hair." How unkind. Harding might prefer to read this comment, from someone calling themselves Arundel. "He's Harding me, fer shure." Steady on, people! Not for nothing does Gawker headline the piece "Shallow media coverage". Monkey wonders if the fact that Gawker was set up by Nick Denton, who like Harding is an ex-Financial Times hack, has anything to do with all this attention.