Another day, another dig at chief executives in the national media. This week's Telegraph coverage of chief executives' expenses is a masterpiece of modern journalism.

Citing figures for council-chief expenses with no detail gives just enough headline facts to create a scare story, without a nod to the mundane reality of organisational life. ‘They have spent £61,000 on international flights,' the Telegraph bellowed this week. Split evenly between the 340 council chiefs cited, that works out at £179.41 each. Is that a half-day conference in the Maldives? Or is it a visit to foreign businesses in a bid to attract inward investment?