Paper Monitor
11:21 UK time, Thursday, 4 October 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The headline on Thursdayβs Daily Mail Diana splash says: βWHAT DID HER SMILE SIGNIFY?β
Itβs hard to tell. Is the Mail trying to get in on the new spirit of interactivity in the media? Do they want readers to e-mail in their answers to the question? Are the reporting team stumped and in need of help?
The explanation must be something a bit exciting. It just must be. The explanation canβt be just that she was having a nice day.
There is great joy on the Animals-Doing-Funny-Things desks at the various papers. A dachshund β called Daisy - found a fossilised mammoth bone while being walked on the beach.
In the Daily Mirror, the dog drapes its paws over the bone, in the Daily Express Daisy does a shocked face while standing behind the bone, and in the Mail the dog tops everything by licking its lips as it ponders the bone.
Aaahh. Animals.
After Tuesdayβs Paper Monitor revealed the links between hearing aids marketing and the Tory party conference there is another reference in todayβs Daily Mail coverage of David Cameronβs speech.
Sketchwriter Quentin Letts pens: βNear me a hearing aid proceeded to let out a tiny βwheeeeeeβ for the next hour.β
Is there something going on?
And the Daily Telegraph highlights, as usual, the storming of one of the last bastions of civilisation. Cameron used the word βpissedβ. Delegates did not even issue a murmur and there were no complaints to the ³ΙΘΛΏμΚΦ, it notes.
But what will Colonel Bufton-Tufton say about the Telegraph using it?
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