On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Martin Petrov wrote:

No wonder the Guardian is losing readers every year.

Note - it's a "comment" in the newspaper, rather than an editorial or
some such.

Weeelll, not quite. The writers/bloggers/whatever on Comment is Free are
essentially columnists - they're published online, rather than on paper,
but they're selected, paid and edited by the Guardian. In this particular
case, Nigel Willmott is also the real paper's letters editor (he also
appears to be a major Acorn Archimedes nerd - good man!). I don't think
you can assume anything he says is the Graun's official party line, but
the paper is ultimately responsible for his output.

Mind you, their general policy on CiF does seem to be to encourage the
writing of brain-shatteringly absurd pieces (usually from some kind of
caricatured hard-left/progressive position), presumably so that the
ensuing storm of controversy will attract page views.

tom

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