Paper Monitor
12:45 UK time, Monday, 21 September 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Pity the ambitious young upstart, contemplating a critical public as they tip-toe in the hallowed footsteps of their revered, wizened, authoritative predecessor; anxious to strike out on their own to thwart the cynics who question their youthful inexperience.
Yes, party conference season is upon us and first out of the blocks are the Lib Dems. And if the papers are a barometer of popular sentiment then Nick Clegg and Alesha Dixon may have more in common than you'd otherwise expect.
"I won't quit" is the Mirror's against Alesha Dixon's controversial appointment as a judge on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Strictly Come Dancing.
Fans of the show will remember that pop singer Dixon, a former winner of the TV contest, was appointed on the judging panel in place of Arlene Phillips - a choreographer and ex-dancer herself.
The Sun, for its part, has simply signed up Phillips to .
And in the Daily Mail, columnist Amanda Platell which, it goes without saying, falls some distance short of a wholehearted endorsement of Dixon's judgement.
The Express is no more forgiving, but it's the prominence given to Princess Diana which piques Paper Monitor's interest. Last Friday, Dec from Belfast, noted how the Express' front page could have been mistaken for a classic Monday edition of old, thanks to its deployment of a Diana headline.
Well, it IS Monday and it looks suspiciously like the Express is going back to its roots.
"How Diana caused a secret royal feud"
Back at the Times, James Blunt appears in the letters page, name checking Lily Allen who last week, used the venerable journal to sound off against file sharers.
One couldn't image the pair sitting comfortably together in a record collection, but it seems that the war on piracy is destined to throw up some unusual pop pairings.
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