Paper Monitor
12:49 UK time, Wednesday, 17 November 2010
As expected today's newspapers are dominated by the Irish financial crisis and its ramifications for the euro, the EU and the global economy.
Err, no, hold on a moment. That's what would have dominated the papers. Instead, there seems to be some sort of wedding news trampling all over the fronts.
Yes, Kate is marrying William, an occasion that the press has been preparing for for several years.
It is time for the to rejoice in its decision to retain full broadsheet status. How big can you display photos of a scantily-clad Kate. Very big is the Telegraph's answer.
They blow up one particular shot of Miss Middleton, in a white bikini hosing herself down, to the point where it goes all blurry. One can't help wondering whether the Telegraph picture desk was momentarily commandeered by an excitable teenage boy with little knowledge of Photoshop.
In the Telegraph's defence, they do find space for the Ireland story at the bottom of page one. The has 14 pages of coverage plus a 16-page pullout souvenir - we're back on the Royal wedding story at this point. Mail readers have to wade in to page 26 to find the paper predicting the demise of the EU off the back of the crisis.
The Daily Express relishes the chance to mention Diana on the front page. But other than that the paper goes easy on the occasion devoting a mere seven pages of coverage. Do they know something everybody else doesn't or is it just a reflection of straitened times?
has page three girl Staci, 21, from Preston offering her tuppence worth. "I'm sure they will take comfort in the words of Queen Victoria who said: 'Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can'."
The offers a front page photo and two pages inside, but what of the equally bolshy Indy? It doesn't feature the royal wedding on the front, although its sister paper "i" positively gushes on its front.
The Indy stable does slightly redeem itself by providing .
She manages to compare the Royal Family to both the Addams Family and the Munsters in her short piece.
It's hard not to wince a little when you read:
"Waity Katie's nine-year war of attrition has finally been won; ever since her parents proved themselves willing and able to slaughter a beautiful animal in cold blood, it was only a matter of time till the Munsters asked them to join forces."
Ouch.
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