Paper Monitor
12:22 UK time, Tuesday, 30 October 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor can鈥檛 help liking a columnist who鈥檚 prepared to offer a bit of candour.
And the Sun鈥檚 very own Gaunty takes the biscuit, if you pardon the punette, when he writes: 鈥淚 know I鈥檝e eaten all the pies but can someone tell the Fat Police to lay off us fatties and stop making out we鈥檙e a bigger threat than the combined forces of al-Qaeda, Harold Shipman and MRSA.鈥
Perhaps he is worried by headlines from his own august journal along the lines of 鈥淔at kids' folks get 'warning'鈥 (23 Oct) and the sensitive 鈥淭he elephant men鈥 (17 Oct) on a story about the obesity epidemic.
On the latter date his colleague Jane Moore wrote 鈥淔at seems to be the hardest word鈥, suggesting political correctness had stopped doctors tackling the problem head on. Gaunty might be going it alone.
Elsewhere in the papers there is similar conflict. On page 15 of the Times, 鈥淭hunderer鈥 Mick Hume laments that 鈥減roperty prices are ear-bleedingly boring鈥 in his wry appeal for people to stop obsessing over the value of their house. On page 2, 鈥淧roperty repossessions to rise by 50 per cent next year, say lenders鈥.
There is great joy at the Daily Telegraph at the gaffe made by 鈥渁ttractive鈥 Sky News presenter Julie Etchingham. The 鈥渁ttractive鈥 newsreader, who did not realise her microphone was switched on when she joked that 鈥渆xtermination鈥 was the Tory policy on immigration, is featured prominently on the front page.
Obviously the fact that she is 鈥渁ttractive鈥 had no bearing on the humungous picture.
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