"The only one way to get a column back then was to go through this whole ridiculous minor-league-newspaper system and then kind of hope that other people died," he says.
Andrea Sutcliffe, the chief inspector for adult social care, told the newspaper: "The system is approaching a tipping point.
After the Leveson inquiry into press behaviour, and poll after poll showing that the public wants a newspaper complaints system that is independent of the newspaper industry and independent of the government, it is decision day for MPs.
New technology had already spelt the end of the 150-year-old "hot metal" newspaper production system; but even on such papers as The Sunday Times, when the latter part of the process was replaced by "paste-up" – a halfway house to the digital make-up used today – unionised linotype operators continued to set the type at Gray's Inn Road.
He said that there has not been any sign of state interference in Ireland's newspaper since the system was instituted in January 2008.
A rough and ready site, entitled From the Paper, was thrown together in days and we began to take it in turns supervising a small band of journalism students who would work through the night cutting and pasting stories from the newspaper's computer system on to the web.
While riding the Metro to work, I picked up an abandoned copy of that day's Express, the free DC transit system newspaper, as a souvenir.
Kroll concluded that the leak was "a result of unauthorized access to" the newspaper's computer systems, "most probably from within the organization and by someone with access to it".
He writes: "Money, law courts, newspapers, the postal system and foreign telecommunications -- even the concept of the city -- were all simply abolished" in Pol Pot's Communist revolution.
To use the Google system, newspapers list the sorts of ads that are available, including the sizes, days of the week and sections.
The hackers gained entry to the newspaper's internal systems and accessed the personal computers of 53 employees including David Barboza, its Shanghai bureau chief and author of the Wen exposé, and Jim Yardley, a former Beijing bureau chief.
