Paper Monitor
11:40 UK time, Wednesday, 10 December 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Life is tough at the moment, even on Hack Street, but a collective sigh of relief could be heard yesterday from work-starved journos as news spread that those cheeky mockney Britpoppers Blur are to reform.
Why, with bassist Alex James returning to the day job, one can almost hear the collective din of editors frantically riffling through their Rolodexes as they seek to tap up forgotten freelancers able to fill the void.
Although, if today's Independent is anything to go by, our Renaissance man du jour is not letting go of his writing reins just yet.
"ALEX JAMES ON PARK LIFE (& GETTING HIS OLD JOB BACK)" runs the Indy's top promo strap (see also our Quote of the Day).
The tabloids, meanwhile, are again fulminating about the state of TV, although there's a novel twist in that this time the focus of their ire is satellite broadcaster Sky, for its plans to show footage of a man committing assisted suicide.
"SUICIDE TV" says the Daily Mirror; "Uproar as TV shows suicide" goes the Daily Express; while the Daily Mail's front page is given over to one of those headlines that serve as mini-stories in their own right.
"Tenderly holding hands, a wife says goodbye as her husband dies by assisted suicide... and shockingly, tonight it will be shown on prime-time TV".
And the Sun... Paper Monitor is mystified at not being able to find even the slightest mention of the tale in the paper which, well, it hardly seems relevant, is, like Sky TV, part of the Murdoch stable.
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