Guy Adams' Media Diary
Now now, chaps, calm down
Published: 23 October 2006
TIME WAS when Fleet Street's greatest punch-ups involved two journalists. Who can forget Jeremy Clarkson's swipe at Piers Morgan? Or the gay abandon with which Alastair Campbell bopped Michael White on the conk, after the Guardian hack had the temerity to giggle at the death of Ali's friend and mentor Robert Maxwell?
Recent times have seen a dearth of journalists prepared to go at each other hammer and tongs, though. So in the absence of hack-on-hack action, I am indebted to my thespian friend Simon Callow for what witnesses describe as a "full-blown barney" with Telegraph theatre critic Charlie Spencer.
Article Length: 821 words (approx.)
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