Paper Monitor
10:16 UK time, Monday, 23 May 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Praise be, it's Monday and we're all still alive. The world inexplicably failed to end‎ on Saturday, as California evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping had predicted, so it's business as normal - especially in one newspaper.
Maybe the Daily Mail really did believe Camping's apocalypse prediction and found itself desperately scrabbling around for news to go in today's paper? Or maybe it just loves pointless statistics about women and weight. Paper Monitor is opting for the second of these two options when it comes to explaining its page three lead today.
As has previously been pointed out, page three is not only the place where women wearing very little give us a bite-sized nugget of their wisdom on a daily basis as in the Sun, it's also the page where the news equivalent of candyfloss goes in most other papers.
Today's offering in the Mail is: "." Consumer author Lucy Siegle has come to this conclusion after studying research conducted by Cambridge University into textile imports. How is not explained, but she also comes to many other - arguable more important - conclusions about the fast fashion phenomenon, its impact on the consumer and the manufacturing world.
Pah - what fun is that? Women and weight tick so many more boxes. If you can throw a large dollop of guilty into the mix - in this case how much women spend on clothes - then all the better. Job's a goodun.
It's good news for a certain princess though, who is pictured on the same page. Beatrice, the Mail tells us, "was turning heads" over the weekend with her new, "incredibly svelte" figure. It says she has lost 2st in weight recently, so this must also mean she has bought fewer clothes recently.
If only it had been THAT hat she'd shed along with the weight. Although seeing as someone paid £81,100.01 for it last night when it was auctioned for charity on eBay, maybe it's a bit of excess weight that has done some good.
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