Paper Monitor
11:06 UK time, Wednesday, 2 February 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Say what you will about the Daily Mail but it's very rare to find a mistake.
One half imagines that subs have a mortal fear of being caught mixing up an "its" and an "it's", spelling "fazed" as "phased" or misspelling manoover manoeuvre.
But there is one today. On page nine we have the tale of - brace yourself - Rachel Johnson's first Brazilian wax. Johnson, in case her self-promotional talents have not caught your eye, is the sister of Boris.
The prompt for La Johnson's hair removal decision was her shock and surprise that her teenage daughter Milly - 16 according to the story - had had the same procedure done. The Mail helpfully includes a large picture of both parties, fully clothed Paper Monitor would hasten to add.
Rachel was rather perturbed by Milly's decision, worrying it signified submission to a "pornographic aesthetic". But she decided to try it herself. And write a piece for Vogue.
And for that we salute her. No family quandary or dilemma should be out of bounds to the freelance journalist.
For the record, Johnson says the experience was "strangely... comfortable... I couldn't believe how painless it was".
Of course, the Mail is suffering great pain. So much so that six pages later on 15, columnist Sandra Parsons writes about the same story.
But for Sandra Parsons, Johnson's daughter is 15, not 16. And on the Milly is 15. So it looks like the news story was wrong.
As Paper Monitor receives an early edition of the paper the age may very well have been changed later. But it's sad for the readers of the early editions as the outrage quotient would be higher if they'd known the girl was 15.
But the real fluttering eyebrow is that Rachel gives her 15-year-old daughter her credit card to use. Is that wise?
Over to the Sun and there's continuing disquiet over the very large amounts of money paid for football players (largely indirectly funded, it must be said, by the Sun's cousin company BSkyB).
But the Sun has had a laudable idea. It's promoting an Oxfam effort to take all the unwanted Liverpool "Torres" shirts and Newcastle "Carroll" shirts and send them to children in Africa. As Torres's Liverpool No 9 shirt was the most popular Premier League shirt in the world last year, that's quite a few.
But then underneath, the paper highlights .
Ah joy.
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