Paper Monitor
11:30 UK time, Tuesday, 20 February 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
A man has been arrested over the letter bombs sent to, among others, traffic enforcement agencies. And oh, how the coverage conforms to type in such cases. There's the requiste blurred snap from his school days in almost every paper... but the Times bags the picture of the day award with its snap of standard-issue stony-faced coppers on guard at his home; beneath the police tape sits a bemused puss, locked in a staring contest with a WPc. Just the facts, ma'am.
Elsewhere, there's more on Britney's new 'do, as of course there would be. The Times recycles its news story of yesterday in T2, ringing around the usual suspects for a psychological post-mortem. Come on down (again) Cary Cooper, the psychologist most likely to answer the phone when a reporter is on deadline.
What does he have to say today? It's a cry for help, a plea for escape from a life that we - yes, us mere mortals who pour over every detail of her life in the goldfish bowl - have made for her. Paper Monitor is duly chastened; and will reflect on this as it reads the Magazine's own piece on how hair is the .
The Times also chats to a snipper of celeb locks, who adds salt in any "[gulp] what was I thinking?" wounds that Brits may be nursing: "She's carrying a few pounds and she has a badly-shaped head."
MEE-ow! That's Paper Monitor's makeover appointment cancelled.
Meanwhile, the Daily Express has Paper Monitor's [unshaved] head spinning.
"DIANA'S INQUEST 'FATALLY FLAWED'".
And, on page seven, "WHY WE MUST NOT LET KATE SUFFER THE SAME FATE AS DIANA".
It is Tuesday... isn't it?
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