Richard Addis, the former Daily Express editor, offers his view of the new-look, all-colour Independent under Roger Alton. It is, writes Addis on his blog, "a master class in daily journalism delivered in a thoroughly post-modern or post-ironic way."
Evidently, "the new Independent makes sense as an exclusively self-referential commentary - its core implication is that newspaper creativity is used up, so it recycles and quotes its own tradition."
I guess Alton won't be quoting that view. He might prefer the first part of Dominic Ponsford's comment in Press Gazette: "a tidy, spacey, pacey and coherent package... a paper positioned upmarket from the tabloids and downmarket from The Guardian and Times."
