Paper Monitor
10:50 UK time, Wednesday, 30 August 2006
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Aww. The summer is not yet over when a picture of Bambi makes it onto the front page of the Times.
But Paper Monitor fair choked on its porridge on turning, as directed, to page five to read all about the cute baby deer. The headline? "."
And what's this? It's a Wednesday and there's Princess Diana smiling prettily from the front page of the Daily Express.
Are they messing with our minds at Desmond Towers? For she was on the front page on Tuesday too. That, thanks to the Bank Holiday, was the first day of the working week, so Tuesday was in effect Monday (a day on which the paper found room for its favourite princess on the front page, as tradition dictates).
But all becomes clear on turning to pages 18 to 21 as directed. It's the ninth anniversary of her death on Thursday, so expect an entire newspaper devoted to her final days tomorrow.
How could this important date have slipped Paper Monitor's mind when the Express works so tirelessly to make every week a Diana week?
The Daily Mirror, meanwhile, has another anniversary in mind. If a picture of a tear-stained and frustratrated New Orleans resident tells a thousand words, its headline provides the sobering caption: "270,000 PEOPLE HAVE LEFT. LESS THAN A THIRD OF SCHOOLS ARE OPEN. ONLY THREE HOSPITALS ARE WORKING. JUST HALF THE BUS ROUTES RUNNING. THIS IS THE SCANDAL OF NEW ORLEANS ONE YEAR AFTER THE HURRICANE."
All the while, another storm bears down on the coast. For it is hurricane season once again.
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