Paper Monitor
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Boy, the Independent on Sunday really knows how to turn on its readers with a themed issue. Yesterday's IoS proudly carried the tag on its front page, "The mental health issue". Hmm, Paper Monitor wonders whether this might help explain why, when all the other newspaper bins were empty at the petrol station at 5pm, the IoS bin overfloweth with unsold copies.
And that's before you get to fact it splashed with an apology about its long-running legalise cannabis campaign, which went along the lines of: "We got it wrong… cannabis is actually very dangerous indeed… disregard all those stories we wrote about it being harmless… sorry."
On to Monday, and the s-word is precisely what the Sun manages to extract from fallen idol Freddie "Off His Fred" Flintoff, whose name has been stripped of all pun potential (see pic for a taste of how things used to be) in a sign of how seriously Fleet Street judge his recent drunken antics. Today, in chronicling the former England captain's taste for "boozy benders", the Sun goes for a more sober "Off his head" take.
Clearly, this time Freddie, you just haven't urn-ed it.