Paper Monitor
13:12 UK time, Tuesday, 2 June 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
With Susan Boyle in rehab, it's time for the ladies and gentlemen of the press to head for the great confession box that is newsprint and issue a mea culpa.
Allow the Times's Hugo Rifkind
"A few weeks ago, in Susan Boyle's home town... I was one of the many journalists who came clod-hopping down her quiet wee street to make her life a misery."
Over to Nicci Gerrard in the Daily Telegraph:
"Who feels ashamed?" asks Gerrard, who points the finger at a far bigger group of people than those who tramped to Blackburn, West Lothian, to thrust a reporter's notebook under La Boyle's nose.
"I watched Susan Boyle on YouTube and afterwards I dearly wished I hadn't - not just because of the sheer humiliating ugliness of a spectacle where celebrity judges patronised a dumpy, unmarried, middle-aged woman..." at which point Paper Monitor's attention was diverted from Gerrard's efforts at lateral reasoning to the sheer length of her sentence. Eighty - - words in total.
It's almost as if she were auditioning for a Guardian intro. Meeow.
Sticking with the two Ts (Times and Telegraph), here's a separated at birth to mull with today's belated posting: and
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