Paper Monitor
11:00 UK time, Friday, 26 October 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
What's the Independent trying to say? Have all those front pages about environmental Armageddon been a bluff? An exaggeration? Have they been scare stories? If not, then why the decision to label today's splash, about a UN report on the state of the Earth, "NOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCARE STORY"?
Talking of scare stories, the Daily Express seems to be covering its tracks after yesterday's disturbing news of "Fears for Rolling Stones Keith as he slurs speech". Now, the wellbeing of the Stones' lead guitarist may be somewhat worrying, although a seasoned Stones observer might ask: when wasn't it thus? But anyone who has heard Richards exercise his vocal cords at some point over the past 25 years, will know, what emerges can hardly be termed comprehensible at the best of times. And that's before he gives Mick temporary respite on stage by taking lead vocal for one track.
Having thrown Richards' health into question yesterday, the Express gives two pages to his restoration, knocking its own story down with a plea not to "write off rocks greatest survivor".
Over at the Mail, the pressing question of the day… well, once you get past "Is Kate at breaking point?", "How could anyone say we don't get on?", "Who shot two of Britain's rarest birds on royal land?"… THE pressing question of the day is "WHO ARE MITCHELL AND WEBB?"
Paper Monitor is never one to feel superior but, even it knows the answer to that.
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