Paper Monitor
12:14 UK time, Wednesday, 2 September 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It is Dominic Mohan's first day as editor of the Sun.
So it's only appropriate that on Dominic's first day, the page 3 girl should be Dominique. The 22-year-old from Wapping has some apposite words for her namesake: "I wish the new gaffer all the best in his new job, particularly at this time of uncertainty for the commercial future of newspapers in a world of increasingly fragmented media and falling ad revenues."
OK, so we made that quote up.
Former deputy editor Mohan steps up to the top job as the Sun ploughs ahead with a campaign no doubt conceived a while back. Unfortunately, the snappily-named Don't You Know There's A Bloody War On has a bit of a production error on page five. at an Afghan base, but the first of the pictures below it is a near-identical image of the same rusting stoves.
As Paper Monitor recalls, it was the role of the "stone" sub to be the last line of defence against this sort of thing.
It's interesting to compare the front pages of the Sun and its traditional rival the Daily Mirror.
The Sun's front is dominated by its campaign for soldiers. And on the left hand side you get the latest development in the , as well as and .
On the front of the Mirror, the splash is the. But there's a big box with . The left hand side is World War II anniversary stuff.
On the Sun, the top right hand blurb is for an Ant and Dec serialisation, while the Mirror has a football pull-out.
Whatever you think about the relative merits of the stories, the Mirror has a front page that is visually the more arresting.
So what will Mohan be able to achieve in the next 24 hours?
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