What the Sunday press commentators say...

The Observer's Peter Preston mulls over the Telegraph group's relationship with The Independent and suggests that it is now impossible for the latter to give way to the former's "crude assault". At the Independent on Sunday there isn't the slightest whisper of such events in its pages. Instead its commentator, Peter Cole, seeks to lift the gloom spread by people such as me (see The death of a newspaper sales dream) in favour of a calmer analysis of the latest circulation statistics. In spite of a fast-changing world, he says, we haven't reached the the point where little Annie is asking, "What's a newspaper, mummy?" (Via observer.theguardian.com and independent.co.uk)