No sign of Stephen Glover in today's Independent, with the media columnist's slot taken by Brian Cathcart. Further inquiries reveal that Glover's contract has in fact been terminated by editor Chris Blackhurst. The final straw, it appears, was a column critical of Media Guardian's Roy Greenslade that appeared a couple of weeks ago. (Entitled The troubles are still raging for the Guardian's media pundit, you can read it here) There were no errors of fact of significance in the piece, but the word is that it was felt that such ad hominem criticism was not what the Independent editor wanted in future. Bear in mind too, that Glover is mainly a Daily Mail man and close to Paul Dacre. So his dismissal could be interpreted as a sign that the Lebedev operation is feeling more a little more … independent of their landlords, Associated Newspapers. After all, the Russians are still smarting from the defection of Geordie Greig to the Mail on Sunday.
