Paper Monitor
10:18 UK time, Thursday, 16 April 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
When newspapers first really got going in Britain in the 18th Century, life for the editors was much simpler.
Apart from anything, there were no photos. Nowadays, when you've got amusing animal stories or attractive upper crust ladies, you thank your lucky stars for the ability to print photos.
But when you have a story where you have to resort to a "generic" photo, you are not so happy.
So it is on page 15 of the Daily Express. The story is about teachers buying their own body armour to protect them in increasingly violent classrooms. Alongside, there's an image marked "PICTURE POSED BY MODELS" and it is a peach. A man in 1980s glasses looking rather like the American actor Rolf Saxon is engaged in a titanic struggle with a boy.
Over in the Daily Mail, they are tackling science as only they know how. Under the headline "ARE ALL WAGS STUPID?" they try to evaluate the burning issues of the day.
"Are all librarians dowdy spinsters?" and "Are redheads always feisty?" will no doubt be straight into the GCSE textbooks. For those after a crib sheet, the answers are no, no, and hard to say but they do have more sex than women with other hair colours.
Meanwhile, a number of papers lead with the Hillsborough disaster anniversary.
Even the Sun carries five pages of coverage, although it finds no room to mention that it is still boycotted by many on Merseyside because of its reporting at the time of the tragedy.
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