Paper Monitor
13:12 UK time, Tuesday, 8 January 2013
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Front page pictures are a giveaway about a paper's instincts.
And today Diana is back. Well on one front page. It's the Daily Express of course.
"Lonely Diana. Actress reveals Princess's Agony" is the headline beneath the image. "See Day & Night - ". Erm, so it's such a big story that it needs to go on the front. And yet not so big that it needs to go in the first 19 pages. Confused?
It turns out this is a story about the actress Naomi Watts and what she told Australian Vogue about a new film in which she plays the former Princess of Wales. So not really about Diana at all but Watt's interpretation of the role.
The only new information - for Paper Monitor at least - is about the movie. "It focuses on the last years of the Princess's life and her two-year affair with surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom she hoped to marry."
No Diana on the other front pages.
The Times opts for Ronnie Wood at a Topman fashion event with his new wife Sally Humphreys. "Who would wear a suit like that? Ron Wood". Okay, we get it now.
The Independent goes with the same story. "He's got the shoes like Jagger." Come again?
The Guardian follows suit (sorry) but opts to show fashion at its most, ahem, conceptual. It's a man with bits of plywood apparently nailed to his head and chest in a seemingly random way, totally obscuring his face. "." Boom boom.
The Daily Telegraph, too, goes for the same event on its front page. Really is there nothing else worthy of a pic? The paper gives it a classic Torygraf twist though. "Country gent of the catwalk" shows a bearded man of a certain age in loud tweed suit complemented with a gilet and yellow beret.
Whatever floats your boat, I guess. Don't hold the front page.
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