Paper Monitor
10:15 UK time, Friday, 21 December 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor suspects all sub-editors secretly dream of writing the ultimate headline: World ends.
"World hasn't ended" doesn't quite have the same impact, but that has not stopped Fleet Street's finest from having fun with the Mayan long count calendar's prophecy of armageddon.
says The Independent on its front page.
The Sun, never one to be beaten to the news by a snooty broadsheet, shaves a couple of minutes off on page 6: "End of the world is nigh (er, unless you are reading this after 11.11am)".
"That's all Folks," , with survival tips from "SAS Legend" Andy McNab (go underground, apparently) and a Doomy Tunes playlist, including, inevitably, Stairway to Heaven and REM's It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I feel fine).
The Telegraph also gets in on the act, informing its readers "If the doomsday prophets are to be believed then, sadly, today's Daily Telegraph, will be the last you will ever read". The paper, like the The Independent, is also the end of the world.
The Daily Mail manages to resist the faux-doomy news story, going instead for sending up the survivalists who stockpile baked beans for the apocalypse that never quite comes.
Ben Macintyre, in the Times, says but the UK has a long tradition of doomsday prophecy - and humans instinctively join the tribe when confronted by danger. It may even have made for a happier Christmas, he argues, as we survive yet another day of reckoning.
Or not, as the case may be...
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