Paper Monitor
11:53 UK time, Wednesday, 25 March 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Stories about things spotted on Google Street View are rapidly becoming a whole new sub-genre of journalism.
Take today's article in the Sun, headlined: "LIAM AT BOOZER ON STREET VIEW".
It's apparently Liam Gallagher of Oasis, caught by Street View, sinking a pint. Of course, Google blurs people's faces - even statues, and photos on billboards - and the figure at The Queen's pub in Regent's Park Road, north London, is very small.
But the more accurate headline "TINY BLURRY FIGURE IN SHORTS WITH BROWN HAIR AT BOOZER ON STREET VIEW MAY OR MAY NOT BE LIAM BUT SOME OASIS FANS SAY SO AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR US" perhaps proved too long to fit on page three.
Over in the Daily Mirror, you can get more dubious Street View sightings with an image that is surely an extraterrestrial. Or it could just be a blurry white bit.
Perhaps Private Eye could start a new GoogleStreetViewBalls section.
Back in the super soaraway paper, there's a wildlife story that fits.
"Britain's gardeners will see a lot more tits this year."
That's insect-eating long-tailed tits of course. Phnarr, phnarr.
And in the Daily Telegraph is perhaps the most spurious swimsuit photo of the day. An attractive brunette is plastered across the front page, wearing nothing but a wide smile and a white bikini. No, it's not Myleene Klass, that would be gratuitous. It's television presenter Christine Kelly, Nicolas Sarkozy's latest cabinet acquisition, brought in to replace the equally comely Rachida Dati.
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