By John Donovan
The Sunday Times has today published a whole page news story under the headline:
“READ ALL ABOUT IT”
The article is focused on sensational allegations by Peter Oborne, who has just resigned as the Chief Political Commentator of The Daily Telegraph.
The Sunday Times is understandably delighted to have a poke at one of its rivals, but is it being hypocritical?
Peter Oborne departed on the claimed grounds that the Telegraph has deliberately suppressed news coverage about the HSBC scandal because of concern that it might lose HSBC advertising revenue. The Swiss subsidiary of HSBC has admitted assisting wealthy clients to evade taxes and hide assets.