totally right, but i think you're being a bit too generous to the other organisations named.
the sun has crossed the line from being a newspaper with a pro-tory bias to actually being tory campaigners. this might sound trivial, but there
is a difference. proper newspapers don't try to snuff out the govt by deliberately announcing their change of allegiance straight after the pm's conference speech. i don't expect the times to give brown a fair ride, but nor do i expect them to tap his phone calls.
what disappoints me about the others is that this is a 'fun' story, but a fucking insignificant one. it's symptomatic of the new influence of blogs and comment pages that this has been shunted up the news agenda all week.