Paper Monitor
12:21 UK time, Friday, 10 July 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
You could have written the answer on a postcard, sent it to yourself a week ago and still have been absolutely right. Yes, the papers' coverage of Journogate - as Paper Monitor has decided to call it for reasons of brevity - is that predictable.
Exposed in the Guardian yesterday, certain sections of HM Press stand accused of hacking into the phones of celebrities and other people in the public eye. Having broken the story the paper devotes to it today, illustrating it with photos of big players in the world of football who are said to be victims.
The only other paper to carry the story on its front page is the Daily Telegraph. There must have been lots of air punching and whooping in its newsroom. Not only is it one of the few papers left unblemished by the row, the tale also allows it to get photos of three - YES THREE - of its favourite beauties onto the front page. Gwyneth Paltrow, Nigella Lawson and Elle Macpherson all allegedly had their phones hacked into. That's what the Telegraph would call a result.
In the Murdoch-owned Sun, just eight paragraphs are squeezed onto page two. And those are just to say the Met Police will not be investigating the claims, forgetting to mention the announced yesterday.
The Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail both have the story buried on page 10 and funnily enough both are accused of the questionable practices. In the Times, which isn't implicated in the row but is owned by Murdoch, you can find the story is tucked away on page six.
On one final note, Paper Monitor is interested to see how long the Guardian will be able to keep the story running. Will it get anywhere near the Telegraph and the MPs' expenses row? Just watch it try.
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