Paper Monitor
12:41 UK time, Friday, 25 September 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Fishing for actual fish can actually be quite difficult. You've got to get the bait right, position yourself in the right bit of the river and show an awful lot of patience.
Fishing for headlines, on the other hand, is rather easy.
You require some publicity for Coronation Street. So you film a sequence of "teen temptress" (copyright, the Daily Mail) Rosie Webster stripping off to reveal basque and stockings. Then you don't show it on TV. Cos it's "censored". But you do show it on the ITV website.
Most of the papers make like naïve fishies and bite. But only the Mail to run the paragraph: "The storyline will open ITV to fresh accusations it is resorting to the salacious to boost ratings." This line comes under pictures of the "censored" clips.
Remaining on the topic of all things salacious, here's a story of two newspapers and their front pages. One shows a woman posing almost naked but her nipples are obscured. The other shows a naked woman with her nipples uncovered.
So, guess the paper. Well, nipples obscured is the front cover of the Daily Star- a picture of Amanda Holden using a pair of silver shoes to preserve her modesty.
Nipples unobscured is the Independent. There's a valid editorial reason, of course. The picture is not a photograph. It is a painting of Rene Magritte's wife, which .
Still, it did prompt a double-take.
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