and you thought the BBC was NuLab's mouthpiece

Read this and wonder at the sheer brazen complicity shown by some of the UK's media.

UPDATE:
The Independent's editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner, has according to the Guardian here said that "he was "completely unapologetic" that his paper had reprinted a government briefing note almost word for word without revealing the source of the information."
Nice that he admits that is what his paper has done, great journalism guys!

""I am completely unapologetic about our attempt to explode the myths that have been allowed to develop in what has been an extremely one-sided debate," Mr Kelner told MediaGuardian.co.uk.

"What we printed was a collection of facts, which our political editor independently verified.

"The source doesn't really make a material difference. What matters is whether those facts are accurate or not. And no one, as far as I can see, is doubting the truth of what we printed.""

I would love to see how the facts were independently verified, I wonder if it went beyond (or even as far as) a quick call to Gordon or the Miliband to say "this is OK" isn't it?

The Independent used to be my paper of choice, you will not be surprised to know that it hasn't been so for quite a while. By the look of their sales figures they are the paper of choice for less and less people all the time.