This morning, in front of everyone, the Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and Tom Watson MP engaged in a bit of pushy-shovey (albeit virtually).
That conversation in full:
arusbridger: Daily Mail obssessed with idea of Guardian “putsch” (in collusion with BBC?). A question of media ethics, apparently. http://tiny.cc/7Wp3M
tom_watson: @arusbridger The Daily Mail are not the only people concerned. Many colleagues think you should report the news not make it.
arusbridger: @tom_watson er, so newspapers should stop writing editorials? Hmmm
tom_watson: @arusbridger Of course not but you have a unique status on the centre left. Why irritate your loyalists without allowing all sides a say?
arusbridger: @tom_watson so you didnt read Freedland or Milne or Bunting or McDonnell or Blunkett – all saying (in the Guardian) Brown should stay?
tom_watson: @arusbridger The only thing you haven’t done is publish his obituary. Be under no illusion that Labour readers think you have gone OTT.
arusbridger: @tom_watson love the thought of “labour readers” – as if they all think the same!
tom_watson: @arusbridger I know all of them in West Bromwich and they agree with me 
Love what you’ve done to paper but last week was too much.
arusbridger: @tom_watson Come into Guardian conference and debate it! 
tom_watson: @arusbridger *gulps* Head into lion’s mouth. I gladly accept. Thank you.
After Watson accepted the invitation to the Guardian morning conference, which is a meeting of Guardian editors and journalists to discuss news for the day, there has been increasing call for a live feed from the meeting. This has not yet been confirmed by the Guardian, but, thinking of the publicity, I can’t see that they won’t at least tweet it.
