What the media commentators are saying

In the Indy,Stephen Glover is rather unhappy about Boris Johnson's decision to resume his Telegraph column

Silly me. A few months ago I suggested that part of Boris Johnson might welcome defeat in the London mayoral election since it would enable him to resume his 250,000 a year column on The Daily Telegraph. It did not occur to me that he would take it up again if he won

and reminds us that

There is, after all, a convention in this country that politicians in office do not write regular newspaper columns, it being thought desirable that the executive should be kept separate from the fourth estate

More good publicity for Twitter in the Guardian as Jeff Jarvis writes that

Twitter is becoming the canary in the news coalmine. It stands to reason: if you've just gone through a major event, you are sure to want to update your friends about it. If enough people are chattering about an earthquake at the same time, that's an immediate indication of a major news story.

In the same paper Kim Fletcher exposes the idea that the world has become a global village

One of the first things we learn to do as cub reporters is to persuade people to let us through the door so we can talk about their troubles. There are four basic approaches: the sympathetic appeal to the therapeutic benefit of confession; the crusading cry that the world must hear of their plight; the lawyerly suggestion that it is important to put their side of the story; and the outraged demand that the public has a right to know and they have a duty to tell.
None of these works with the Burmese generals, who have done a most effective job in preventing the world from witnessing the wholly ineffective way in which they appear to have dealt with the devastation brought to the Irrawaddy delta by Cyclone Nargis.

The Independent takes a look at new press markets

New newspapers some backed by governments, others by business moguls and international conglomerates are springing up from Rwanda to Tajikistan, attracting readers and advertising revenues. In many of these markets, increasing literacy rates dovetail with growing disposable income to create millions of new daily readers. And some Western media companies are forging partnerships and trying their hand at start-up companies as well.