Paper Monitor
13:09 UK time, Friday, 31 July 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
To the red tops...
The Sun has got itself all worked up over the story about Jude Law becoming a dad again - this time to a child he has fathered with an "unidentified woman" - well, that was how yesterday.
But there has been lots of chatter on that there internet about the identity of the mother and, in lieu of a major news agency - Reuters, AP etc - getting into the nitty gritty of Jude Law's love life, the Sun is left quoting the "usually reliable showbiz website TMZ".
Hmm, usually reliable. Would that be 60% reliable? Ninety-five percent reliable? Somewhere in between? It's an interesting approach and one that Paper Monitor might just suggest to its overlords when weighing up, for example, whether or not to run with a breaking news story.
Further into the paper, Sun columnist John Gaunt, currently on tour with the newspaper's radio station, SunTalk, in Spain, has taken the novel approach of contracting out parts of his one-page column to other contributors - thereby, rather defeating the point of a column, no?
Anyway, cue "Sam... from Page 3" who is on tour with "Gaunty" and tells readers the pair don't always see eye to eye - at least that's what Paper Monitor assumes she is saying, when she writes "he doesn't half get on my t**s sometimes!"
It's a strange policy - while the word itself is too naughty to reproduce in full, the Sun has never hesitated when picturing said appendages... every day of the week.
Over at the Mirror, they've been wrestling with how to handle the story about Sky TV's plans to launch a 3D channel. Sky of course is part owned by the Sun's proprietor, Rupert Murdoch.
"Pie in the Sky" runs the headline, with the Mirror choosing to focus on the fact that today's television sets aren't equipped to deal with the 3D technology.
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