Jeremy Paxman: Newsnight is "made by 13-year-olds"

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Katz was responsible for the then new guardian.co.uk website in 1998.[9] As features editor in January 2003, he ran an image commissioned from artist Gillian Wearing for the G2 front cover which consisted of the words: "Fuck Cilla Black".[12][13] Intended to promote an article about the decline in the quality of British television, readers complained about the decline in the quality of newspaper journalism.[13] Black's agent, her son Robert Willis, described it as a "cheap publicity stunt", and Wearing apologised for the offence caused.[14]

In 2004, while editor of the G2 supplement, and having bought a list of voters, Katz oversaw the campaign for Guardian readers to pair with undecided voters in the marginal Clark County, Ohio to help swing the 2004 US Presidential election against George W. Bush and in favour of John Kerry.[15] The campaign did not have a successful outcome, it was dropped after a negative response and Bush won Clark County.

The "Peter Pan" 13 year-old that never learns!