Paper Monitor
11:57 UK time, Tuesday, 14 October 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
As Tuesday's quote of the day proves, there's nothing like a spot of man-in-the-street punditry to puncture the inflated egos of the rich and powerful.
So when the Daily Mirror's reporter decided to make the best of a few fruitless hours doorstepping RBS chief Sir Fred Goodwin, by speaking to his 67-year-old paperboy, he got what he was looking for.
Point of order - a "67-year-old paperboy" (). Isn't that the story in itself?
Certainly Stan McWhirter - pictured clutching what Paper Monitor presumes is not Sir Fred's copy of the Daily Mirror - has more to say than the average shoe-gazing, behooded 14-year-old who would more naturally fit the job description.
Anyway, over to Stan: "That was no way to run a bank," he opines. "The writing has been on the wall for the Royal Bank for some time... it seemed inevitable."
There you go Messrs Brown, Darling, Bernanke and Paulson. In a nutshell fellas, you should have seen this coming.
Another unwitting character, or characters, sucked into the credit crunch mire are 80s popstars Duran Duran, who had the ill fortune to be signed up to play at a Lloyds TSB staff getaway weekend.
According to one unnamed source in the Sun it was "a disgusting spectacle" although the paper fails to make clear whether this refers to the resplendent scenes of opulence and avarice, or simply the Durans' resurrecting Hungry Like the Wolf again.
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