Paper Monitor
11:40 UK time, Tuesday, 12 December 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The gruesome goings-on around Ipswich make all the usual front pages, and, in the tabloids at least, the "R" word is never far from view. The Sun brandishes the suspected murderer the "Suffolk Ripper", the Daily Mirror, the "Ipswich Ripper". Terminology in such stories can be a touchy subject, as evidenced by complaints to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ about the use of the word "prostitute". But the Sun has little time for tip-toeing around such matters, and sticks it to the Beeb in an editorial, for "creepily describing" the victims as "sex workers".
The Daily Mail manages to turn the story on its audiences' concerns by pushing the "middle class" button – "Middle class life to a heroin hell" runs the headline on its story about victim Gemma Adams.
Elsewhere, in which paper might you expect to read this line: "Will [David Cameron] now put his policies where his mouth is – and follow where France and Germany have led?"
Probably not the famously Euro-sceptic Daily Mail, but after 12 months of wishy-washy Cameronite leadership, the Mail can't conceal its glee that former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith is robustly standing up for traditional Conservative values in a new report on the family.
What's more, in IDS' championing of married couples over co-habiting one, the Mail sees good examples set by the French and Germans.
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