Views or news?

I do have concerns from time to time about the direction of the Independenr.Editor Simon Kelner's strategy that it shoud be a viewspaper and not a newspaper has led to the publication drifting towards the personal agenda's of its correspondents.

Last week as the other papers were focusing on the US primaries,the paper used its front page to attack George Bush over his Middle East policy.


Today it returns to the same subject,in an article by Claire Soares

President George Bush is under pressure from human rights groups to use his visit to Saudi Arabia today to seek the release of the pioneering blogger Fouad al-Farhan, who has been jailed without charge for more than a month.
The human rights groups, including Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists, are urging the president to raise Mr Farhan's case with King Abdullah today. They also want him to appeal for the release of an Egyptian blogger, Abdel Karim Suleiman, the first to be jailed in Egypt, when he meets President Hosni Mubarak at Sharm-el-She-ikh on Wednesday. The Egyptian blogger is serving a four-year sentence for insulting President Mubarak.

Yes it's an important issue to report,but on the front page? with so much other news around.It is not going to sell newspapers to the floating buyer.Those intersted will surely read it on line.