The editor who wasn't there

In a revelation destined to send shock waves of scandal around Fleet Street, Vanity Fair secretly cropped its photograph of national newspaper editors to excise maverick Daily Star Sunday editor Gareth Morgan from the picture, Monkey can reveal. The Lord Snowdon portrait, taken for the National Portrait Gallery exhibition, has already generated much excitement on our Organ Grinder blog, where Monkey's colleague Janine Gibson likened it to a "summit between the Addams family and the Krays". Morgan said he was in "high dudgeon" over the snub. "I can't understand why I was cropped out of the final line-up for Vanity Fair's snapshot of national newspaper editors," Morgan told Monkey. "As you can see from the original image, I was the only one to make an effort". Monkey thinks this version of the pic goes a long way to making amends for what Guardian picture editor Roger Tooth today assesses frankly as "a bit of a dull photograph of an incomplete group of people".