Paper Monitor
12:12 UK time, Friday, 19 January 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor has got that Friday feeling, and its thoughts wandered while reading about carbon footprints, racism rows and, er [sotto voce] Lindsay Lohan on the way into work today.
After yesterday's musing on how the Daily Telegraph is fond of the "filly on the front with accompanying article on page three" formula - a variation on the Sun's page three stunna - Paper Monitor found itself musing on how the papers typically fill page three.
HALF-HUMAN, HALF-ANIMAL: RETURN OF THE GIRL WHO WAS LOST IN THE WILD FOR 18 YEARS - the Times, always keen of a strange tale of human drama for this slot (a recent example was the pregnant teenage actress playing Mary in the Vatican-endorsed Nativity film).
YOU'VE CHECKED THE PRICE AND CALORIE COUNT, NOW HERE'S THE CARBON COST - hello, the Guardian.
SPOTTED IN OUR GARDEN - a Metro quirky picture-driven piece, about big cats turning up in urban gardens in India.
ONE MILLION (AND 66) YEARS BC... AND ISN'T RAQUEL STILL LOOKING SWELL - the Daily Mirror, always keen on cleavage shots but never quite bold enough to go down the Sun's route (the same story crops up in later pages of the Dailies Mail and Express, of whom the same could be said).
NICOLA T, 24, OF CROYDON and MYLEENE'S £1M BOOBY PRIZE - can you guess? Yes, the Sun.
ULTIMATE IN THROWAWAY FASHION... THE WORLD'S FIRST DISSOLVABLE DRESS - IT'S SEXY AND IT HELPS THE ENVIRONMENT. JUST DON'T SPILL YOUR CUP OF TEA - ah, the Telegraph, how we love your headlines that are so comprehensive there's no need to read the story.
Yes, all present and correct. How reassuring.
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