Less thana week old, it already hasWestminster agog with its well-sourced but roundlydeniedallegations, serialisedin the Observerweekly newspaper for which Mr Rawnsleywrites.
Zhang Hong, a deputy chief editor of the Economic Observer, a weekly newspaper, was stripped of his title (though allowed to keep working) for his role in organising the editorial.
He dumped that plan when offered a job at the New York Observer, the salmon-colored weekly that lived to tweak the rich and famous, and abandoned journalism for the family business only in 1995, just as his father became a minority owner of Rockefeller Center.