Stephen Glover in The Independent registers surprise at the claim by Times editor Robert Thomson that his paper will start making money in the first six months of next year. "Perhaps a new form of creative accountancy is being deployed", he writes. Peter Wilby in The Guardian scorns journalistic reliance on "official sources", pointing to the reporting failures in the build-up to war in Iraq, and since.
Peter Preston in The Observer argues that the BBC's phone-in deceptions "were hardly in the WMD class" and reminds us that "precious few newspapers could pretend to more pristine behaviour." (And I plead guilty to that charge).
