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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Roy Greenslade

The Glover affair: a word from Lord Beaverbrook

The MacLennan/Glover/Kelner affair is probably over - for now at least (see postings below). It will be fascinating to see just how quickly Stephen Glover returns to the topic of the Telegraph group in general and its chief executive, Murdoch MacLennan, in particular. Doubtless The Independent's editor, Simon Kelner, is wondering too, along with the chief executive, Ivan Fallon.

Meanwhile, as a postlude, note the comment about the saga by The Times's media columnist, Dan Sabbagh, who places it in context by concluding: "What a lot of fuss about something not very important".

Note also the interesting angle adopted by Oliver Luft at dot.journalism who ponders why I should have broken the story in print rather than online. And after that very modern viewpoint, one from the distant past. Donald Trelford, a former editor of The Observer, was once told by his then boss, David Astor, the paper's editor-publisher, of an observation made by Lord Beaverbrook at a meeting of proprietors:"Gentlemen, we must not bomb each others' headquarters."

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