NEWSPAPERS aren't universally famous for being overly laudatory about their competitors or about those who write for them. The newspaper business has always been ultra-competitive and few publications are desperately eager to encourage anyone to purchase or read a rival. But we'll surely be forgiven should we venture that Melbourne's The Age will be diminished by the February 4 resignation of its political editor, Michelle Grattan, AO.
Grattan first became part of the Canberra press gallery 42 years ago and somehow acquired an identity more as a kind of national institution as opposed to a mere Fairfax columnist. People didn't say they'd read something in The Age. They'd say they'd read something Michelle Grattan had written.
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