Paper Monitor
10:33 UK time, Thursday, 3 December 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Trivial, or significant stuff for a paper with the heft of the Times to focus on during a murder trial?
Think about it. Someone accused of such a crime has a lawyer to speak for them, but will communicate directly with judge, jury and media non-verbally when they are not giving evidence. What they wear, what they do with their hands, the expressions on their face speak a thousand words.
"As the trial comes to a close, Ms Knox, who on Valentine's Day entered the courtroom in a bright T-shirt bearing the logo 'All You Need is Love', has adopted a more sober look. On Tuesday she wore black and yesterday she wore a brown top with light trousers and her hair in a plait."
The paper also has a , from folky muslin and scrubbed-clean face at the start, to her more restrained choices during the closing arguments.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail's Craig Brown wades into the Tiger Woods saga via nominative determinism with a column entitled: (There is something quite thrilling yet also arcane about typing the words "brazen hussy", and Paper Monitor likes it. Rrrrrrrr!)
"Generally I prefer people in the news to have names appropriate to their calling. So, well done Jaimee Grubbs, the American cocktail waitress who is claiming to have been to bed with Tiger Woods. Highly commended awards in the perfect names stakes must also go to the other two women named as possible lovers of Mr Woods [Kalika Moquin and Rachel Uchitel]. The glamour model Abi Titmuss remains Britain's greatest contribution to the genre, closely followed by Rebecca Loos. Likewise, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson - with its echoes of ta-ra-raboomdee-ay - is the perfect name for an upper-class goodtime girl."
But he misses a glaringly obvious trick in all his loooooong list of other people with great names for their chosen profession/pastime. No, not the Magazine's on-off nominative determinism strand in its letters page (here's just a taste), but Tiger Woods himself. Tiger. Who has just admitted to "transgressions". Purr it to yourself.
And finally, one missed Delia's Christmas cooking extravaganza, but is pleased to note from the Guardian's celebration of her return that the Blessed Lady of the Cooking Ladle has a Kitler (pictured only in the real-life Guardian, not the ).
Just like Paper Monitor (whose Hitler Cat features in this instalment of Web Monitor).
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