Paper Monitor
11:21 UK time, Thursday, 4 October 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The headline on Thursday’s Daily Mail Diana splash says: “WHAT DID HER SMILE SIGNIFY?”
It’s hard to tell. Is the Mail trying to get in on the new spirit of interactivity in the media? Do they want readers to e-mail in their answers to the question? Are the reporting team stumped and in need of help?
The explanation must be something a bit exciting. It just must be. The explanation can’t be just that she was having a nice day.
There is great joy on the Animals-Doing-Funny-Things desks at the various papers. A dachshund – called Daisy - found a fossilised mammoth bone while being walked on the beach.
In the Daily Mirror, the dog drapes its paws over the bone, in the Daily Express Daisy does a shocked face while standing behind the bone, and in the Mail the dog tops everything by licking its lips as it ponders the bone.
Aaahh. Animals.
After Tuesday’s Paper Monitor revealed the links between hearing aids marketing and the Tory party conference there is another reference in today’s Daily Mail coverage of David Cameron’s speech.
Sketchwriter Quentin Letts pens: “Near me a hearing aid proceeded to let out a tiny ‘wheeeeee’ for the next hour.”
Is there something going on?
And the Daily Telegraph highlights, as usual, the storming of one of the last bastions of civilisation. Cameron used the word “pissed”. Delegates did not even issue a murmur and there were no complaints to the ̳, it notes.
But what will Colonel Bufton-Tufton say about the Telegraph using it?
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