Paper Monitor
11:36 UK time, Friday, 31 August 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
There is a story in today鈥檚 newspapers that shall not be referred to by Paper Monitor by name. It shall be known simply as That Story.
In the Daily Express today there is a surprisingly restrained seven pages of That Story, but the Sun really goes out on a journalistic limb by commissioning full-time controversialist Julie Burchill to write an 8-page souvenir pull-out.
Needless to say, the squeaky-voiced one loves the tragic princess of That Story, but her paean may be, how shall we say, a little ripe for many Sun readers鈥 tastes.
The tragic princess is described as a 鈥渃hubby teenager鈥 (in a pot-kettle name-calling scenario), Sarah Ferguson is dubbed 鈥渧ulgar and slutty鈥 and 鈥済inger minger鈥, and in a similar style Burchill (the 鈥渕ost outspoken fan鈥) suggests the tragic princess had a 鈥渂itchy, minxy streak鈥.
The Independent puts that story in its rightful place, or at least what the Indy thinks is its rightful place, on page 45.
And in other news, the Daily Mail says cider鈥檚 back and the serious papers start a ball of panic rolling by suggesting Barclays is having to resort to loans from the big bank equivalent of those finance companies who advertise during Trisha.
In the Daily Telegraph, there鈥檚 a story with 鈥淔acebook鈥 in it on the front. The barbarians are at the gates. It鈥檚 time for Paper Monitor to flee.
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