Paper Monitor
13:36 UK time, Monday, 16 March 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
In the Times, homage is paid to the "cult" TV series, The Wire. The paper's television critic Andrew Billen - perhaps spurred by our Office Evangelist musings - explains to readers just exactly what is so good about the programme.
And all credit to the evangelising Mr Billen, he manages to do so without giving away any significant plotlines - a common problem many late-comers have to deal with when in the company of aficionados of a show like The Wire.
For anyone who thought the clan Myerson story had gone on for as long as it possibly could, Times's T2 manages to squeeze yet another cover story out of it. No interviews with Mummy, Daddy or Master Myerson this time, it's all about the drug at the centre of the story - skunk. Can this story really be stretched any further?
After the record-breaking success of Friday's Comic Relief, the event's organisers can now sit back and relax, having raised £57m for charideee. Amidst all the current economic doom and gloom it would seem to be a positive ray of sunshine.
Or not, if you're a certain Sunday newspaper columnist. Rod Liddle, in the Sunday Times, describes the UK-wide fund-raiser as the "self-congratulatory, fascistic smugfest, Red Nose Day". Ouch.
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