Eight exclusives
Sir: So Peregrine Worsthorne found no- thing in the first issue of the Independent he really wanted to read (Diary, 11 Octo- ber). What Mr Worsthorne chooses to read is, of course, his own affair. But it is somewhat surprising that the editor of the Sunday Telegraph found no interest in learning of Tory higher education plans 24 hours before they were announced, or of impending monetary talks between Mrs Thatcher and the President of the Bundes- bank, or of the CBI warning on inflation, or of Kenneth Baker offering £114 million to universities, or of Ulster unions moving against intimidation, or of judges' opposi- tion to the Home Secretary on sentencing, or of the RAF Commander-in-Chiefs views on this country's air defence in a future war, let alone Michael Heseltine's challenge to the Government on industrial and unemployment figures.
Those stories, and a string of others during the first week, were exclusive to the paper Mr Worsthorne finds so lacking in cutting edge. But then the right to be less-than-fully informed is inalienable, even, it seems, for editors still sitting in Fleet Street.
Jonathan Fenby
Home editor, The Independent, 40 City Road, London EC1
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