Paper Monitor
12:28 UK time, Tuesday, 9 December 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's a tale of two Tory leaders in today's papers. Two images of David Cameron - one as man of the people, the other as, well, slightly less of a man of the people.
Image one is in the Sun, having appeared elsewhere yesterday. Mr Cameron is pictured leaving a Woolworths having managed to pluck two rolls of wrapping paper and a toy truck and digger from the 50% off retail maelstrom. He's just like everybody else.
Image two is in the Guardian, the Times and the Daily Telegraph. It shows Mr Cameron and his wife with David Ross at a swanky looking party. The Conservative leader is standing next to the mobile phone tycoon's then-girlfriend Michelle Ross. Both the Guardian and the Times feel it necessary to point out Ms Ross's past as a lap dancer and someone with a conviction for benefits fraud. Hey ho.
It is with great regret that Paper Monitor is forced to announce it missed something yesterday. It happens.
In the Guardian there was a glorious left-hand-fails-to-appraise-right-hand-of-what's-going-on moment. And the people of this parish know more than a little about that sort of thing.
Monday's Media Guardian carries a withering analysis of the relationship between newspaper Christmas gift guides and advertisers and PRs. And it's apparently a miserable job having to compile the list for the poor journos, who often have to send back the "examples".
Sadly, Monday's G2 led with their thrifty festive gift guide, a mere 10 pages of suggestions.
Hello right hand, meet left hand.
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