Paper Monitor
10:25 UK time, Friday, 16 December 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
When very polite, older people are asked to describe rude people they usually come up with a euphemism of some sort. More often than not they gently categorise the person as "quite blunt".
It's also a good summary of the Daily Mail.
Why sugar the pill when you can come out with a headline like "Our fatter children need more penicillin"?
While other papers are opting for "troubled" or "problem" to describe those families the government is particularly anxious to help/keep an eye on in the wake of the riots, the Mail prefers "Shameless".
Its take on the NHS figures about the amount of girls losing their virginity under the age of consent is again on the blunt side.
"How teenage girls lost their innocence," it trumpets.
All teenage girls? Or a large percentage, with the rest to follow after watching a raunchy episode of the X Factor?
Over in the Times, there's some thoughtful analysis that points out that the average age for onset of puberty has fallen for girls, standing at nine years 10 months according to Danish research. There is no space to mention this in the Mail article.
Instead the blame is laid at the door of more detailed sex education in schools, with racy TV performances by Rihanna mentioned as an afterthought.
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