Paper Monitor
12:53 UK time, Monday, 27 August 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The Sun is at it again. Seemingly unrepentant after the mysterious-case-of-the-Cornish-Great-White-Shark-that-just-so-obviously-wasn't, they are back for more.
This time it is a man-eating mako shark, reportedly filmed from an oil rig off the Aberdeen coast. Soon the expression "to cry shark" will replace "cry wolf" in the lexicon.
Elsewhere, the fall-out from Samantha Cameron's plug-tastic appearance in US magazine Harper's Bazaar continues. La Cameron - who took every possible opportunity to promote products from pricey stationers Smythson - is accused of "blatant profiteering from her husband's position" in the Daily Express.
The Daily Mail has the offending items in all their glory. The aggressively pink calfskin bible and the fluorescently yellow picture frame. Oh, the horror, the horror.
Elsewhere in the Mail there is a terrible story of deprivation in Britain at its worst. "Foreign holidays are out as private school fees spiral" is the terrifying news on page 33. Paper Monitor thinks it can hear a little violin playing somewhere.
There is more outrage in the Daily Mirror where Tony Parsons has identified the cause of emigration from Britain. It's apparently the "increasing hoggishness of everyday British life", including "loudness" and "profanity". Can this be the same man who was once "a punk writer and taking drugs with the Sex Pistols"? Surely not.
Hats must be taken off to the tabs today for their glorious use of pictures of two kittens sitting in miniature deckchairs.
Now that's what Paper Monitor calls mews.
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