Paper Monitor
11:15 UK time, Tuesday, 20 September 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Many cub journalists start their career writing "nibs".
These news-in-briefs fill the spaces between the bigger articles, the "leads" and "anchors" and whatnot. Some even call them "grouting", referring to the stuff that goes in between tiles.
But there is a hidden world if you can be bothered reading them.
Take this one from the Sun. A golfer celebrates a win in a charity tournament by going on stage in a miniskirt and exposing himself in front of the mayor. Man later resigns from club. Man suspected to have been drinking.
Or indeed the revelation that a 64-year-old from London will visit all 92 football league grounds in alphabetical order in 29 days, mostly by train. Headline: "He choos he scores".
Some newspapers don't really have nibs. The Daily Mail is one that eschews them.
But in an organ as serious as the Times they provide a little bit of lightness. One of them tells us about 600 pigs released into the New Forest to eat spare acorns.
There's more of the same in the Daily Mirror where a nib headlined "Gone potty" reveals that a museum dedicated to instant noodles has opened in Yokohama.
The flair is often in the headline, although the effort on top of a story about John Travolta having his vintage Mercedes stolen is a little esoteric. "Twoc 'n' roll" anyone?
You have to know that Twoc is short for the offence of taking-without-consent. One might argue that not all Mirror readers do.
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