Paper Monitor
13:07 UK time, Wednesday, 14 April 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Here's a trick that your humble prospective Papermoniatory candidate has noticed in a couple of the papers - temporarily repatriating reporters to the constituencies where they grew up.
The exercise, however, comes with a health warning - only writers who were raised in gritty non-South East locations need apply, at least for those papers which always have one eye on keeping it real.
Yesterday saw the Independent's Paul Vallely for a piece which was as infused with reminiscences of back-to-back, two-ups and two-downs, as it was about today's current political climate.
Key sentence: "My Grandad had been a union man, down the steelworks, before he ended up in the local sanatorium with lung disease."
Today it's the turn of the Guardian's Simon Hattenstone, who of Gerrards Cross Salford.
Hattenstone, we quickly learn, was not despatched to be a chimney sweep in the local cotton factories. As a boy he "revelled in his middle-classness".
But worry not Guardian readers. There is proletarian blood in your man after all.
Key sentence: "Dad might have left school at 14 and sold clothes door to door..."
Paper Monitor is hoping for some further cross fertilisation of this strand. The Daily Telegraph's Celia Walden perhaps, returning to her Moss Side homestead.
And while the "qualities" are making great play of their down-to-earthness, the Sun's still hamming it up in their page three News in Briefs. Today's words of wisdom from Chloe, 22, from Leeds, who invokes George Bernard Shaw in her analysis of the Tory party's manifesto pledges.
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