Monday, October 06, 2008

Ars longa

Has The Times introduced overseers with whips?

I only ask because their columnists suddenly seem to be working awful hard. Martin Waller provided the best part of 3 pages to the Business Section on Saturday, Caitlin Moran ditto 4 to Times2 on Friday

Other names also pop up more frequently these days. Nice if they are someone you enjoy reading, ugh! if it is someone who annoys

Of course words go further now that so much space can be filled with illustrations. And, by their blogs, journalists have proved that they can produce far more words than ever used to get in to the paper

Is this a Good Thing? Or a sign that we are heading in to a future of tediously long columns written by people who do not have time to write a short one?