Paper Monitor
12:33 UK time, Tuesday, 29 September 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
I don't believe it. Not only are shoulder pads and the kids from Fame making a comeback, but now it's the turn of avocado bathroom suites. The Daily Mail reports that B&Q is looking again at colours other than white. (The Sunday Times, too, mentions .)
But wait, the 1980s aren't finished with you yet. The Mail also carries the shock news that . In the paper, the piece runs to some 200 words on page 33, plus then-and-now photos. Online it's more than double that, fleshed out with the added drama of Ridgeley almost getting a parking ticket.
The Sun, too, remarks that . Do you see what they did there?
Meanwhile, the Guardian tasks Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with . OK, recipe one is for beetroot and walnut salad. Paper Monitor is inspired. But rather less so on realising that the only ingredient in the list which one actually has to hand is stale bread.
And finally, cast your mind back. Waaaay back. To Saturday, even. In the Guardian's glossy lifestyle mag Weekend, politicians turn the tables on the hacks who routinely bark "Answer the question!" at them.
Paper Monitor is rather tickled by this, particularly that, tipsy on "eye-wateringly, ball-crunchingly expensive" wine and worried about his expenses, he missed the Arms to Iraq story.
And then there's with Channel 4 inquisitor-in-chief Jon Snow. Sample exchange:
"AW And I consider that quite a coup, to have got Jon Snow to agree with me that we need to curtail the rights of the media. Thank you, Jon Snow...
JS Hang on a minute...
AW That's all we have time for today."
And that, readers, is all we have time for today. One has concluded this column.
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