So did you read that Sunday Telegraph review of Michael Wolff's blockbuster about Rupert Murdoch – The Man Who Owns the News? Neither did Monkey! Reason: it was commissioned, written, submitted, but somehow never ran. Monkey hears Sunday Telegraph books editor Michael Prodger commissioned Kim Fletcher, one-time editorial director of the Telegraph Media Group, husband of one-time Sunday Telegraph editor Sarah Sands and sometimes MediaGuardian press columnist to review the book. In came the review, Prodger gave it the thumbs up, but it was killed off higher up the editorial food chain. It is not the first time that a piece by Fletcher, whom the Telegraph commissioned a couple of years ago to write about the newspaper centenary exhibition at the British Library, has been killed after commissioning. A source at the paper says the review didn't run because the Murdoch tome wasn't a "Christmas book". What a great disappointment for all concerned.
