Wheatcroft appointed editor of S.Telegraph
So the paper of Christopher Booker gets a new editor, Patience Wheatcroft of the Times. She'll be a good fit. The Independent describes her as 'very right wing'. I can't say much about her commitment to news values, except a perhaps telling interaction I had (the only time I think I have read her work). Just before last year's election she misrepresented an IFS report (confirmed to me by the IFS itself), making things sound worse than they were. When I suggested by email she make a correction, after trying to explain it away, she said she didn't think there was any point in going back to it.Now I know I'm sounding like Scott Burgess (or at least pre-tip jar Scott Burgess) but the impossibility of getting right-wing newspapers to correct anything is a bugbear of mine.
Anyway I've managed to stay loyal to the paper through Moore, Lawson and Sands, so I suspect I can have patience with Wheatcroft.
posted by Matthew @ 3/08/2006 12:40:00 PM
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