Paper Monitor
11:46 UK time, Thursday, 19 July 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Good to see the Daily Mail continues to maintain the moral standards to which the rest of Fleet Street can only vainly aspire.
It goes without saying that this paragon of family values would never – unlike a certain rival - stoop so low as to have scantily-clad women on page three merely for its readers’ titillation.
So it is with great virtue that Paper Monitor has absorbed the lessons of the Mail’s page three lead.
This is an intriguing pictorial chronology showing model Eva Herzigova in three states of undress. Firstly in THAT bra “the shape that stopped traffic” (1994), then looking “decidedly gaunt” in a skimpy dress (2003) and finally, to much relief all round, bouncing back, "tanned, toned and bikini-ready” (2007).
There are so many complexities at play here in three pictures and 200 words that only repeated readings can begin to master them.
But at the heart of it is such a positive story about body image that we are reminded again why the Mail continues to set the benchmark for journalistic endeavour.
But let’s give the others SOME credit. When it comes to headlines, it’s more of a level playing field.
And Segwaying neatly from one green metaphor to imagery of a similar tinge, may we consider the story of Britain’s oldest and biggest yew hedge and the Herculean task of trimming it.
Here's how the sub-editors fared. Punorama-lovers, watch and learn (how to and how not to do it):
Yewmongous (Mail)
Yew missed a bit (Daily Mirror)
It’s about time yew had a haircut (Express)
Old Big Hedge (Sun)
Hedge need a trim? (Metro)
Finished cutting that hedge yet? (Daily Telegraph)
We all know what THE big story was. More on the media's coverage of the ±«Óătv's woes can be found here.
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