Paper Monitor
12:13 UK time, Wednesday, 6 December 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It’s Christmas, in case anyone hadn’t noticed. And the Sun pitches in with a story from its own “Christmas correspondent” about the threat to traditional Christmas symbols.
In the great tabloid panto, the villain is Political Correctness and the Petty Bureaucrats, with the paper warning that decorations, Santas and mince pies are all under threat.
But the Sun also reveals another kind of threat, by explaining what Manchester United players are doing when they go down on one knee to celebrate a goal. They’re imitating the firing of rocket launchers in a computer game. Nice.
Political commentator Andrew Marr’s musical tastes are also revealed. Writing in his Daily Telegraph column, Mr Marr proposes that he should be buried alongside a copy of Jarvis Cocker’s latest CD.
But still determined to remain unrevealed is the continuing mystery story of the sports celebrity known as CC who has gone to court to prevent the story of his affair being made public.
This is going to run and run. And after the opening shots yesterday, the Daily Mail brings out the bigger artillery on Wednesday, with a two-page spread profiling the celebrity, “cheating wife” and “aggrieved husband”.
Of course, none of them are named – but the Mail quotes a lawyer as saying “Talk about locking the stable after the horse has bolted”.
It has all the makings of a Christmas whodunnit.
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