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Paper Monitor

14:44 UK time, Monday, 9 January 2012

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

There's a rather good measurement of the amount of news around - if every newspaper is splashing on a different subject.

Looking at today's papers, this is a time of exceptional dearth for the nation's news editors. But before you go starting to put pictures of sad-eyed hacks on one of those charity flyers that fall out of papers and then get thrown away, remember one thing.

The modern news editor always has pictures.

In today's papers, it's pictures of the War Horse premiere.

Some papers just have the horse on the red carpet, some have Spielberg leaning in as if to kiss the horse, and some have the Duchess of Cambridge.

Ah, lovely space-filling pictures.

Elsewhere in the news, Paper Monitor's favourite story is whose friends have been on a bit of a mission.

Julia met a guy called Martin in Ibiza in and shared a single kiss as the sun came up. She gave him her number and he never called. She believed she may have got a couple of digits wrong.

Her friends launched a campaign to find Martin using Twitter and Facebook after Julia regularly brought him up in conversation.

That was Friday. Monday's development is that Martin has been found and he has a girlfriend.

But after trawling his Facebook page, the Daily Mail has concluded Julia has had a lucky escape.

So no damage done here, eh.

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