Paper Monitor
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Two signs of unhealthy property price fixation in today's Daily Telegraph which, in relating the horrific story of four family members found dead in their home in Newcastle upon Tyne, slips into the third paragraph that the house is worth £350,000.
Meanwhile, in its story about the effects of Christmas bonus pay-outs to City bankers, the paper goes to upmarket estate agent Lane Fox for a quote. But only a few lines later, the property agency in question has inexplicably morphed into an ambitious internet entrepreneur.
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"'The guys who get these bonuses are like lottery winners, you can spot them a mile off,' said Andrew Scott, of Martha Lane."
Elsewhere, the paper is revelling in the rediscovery of some familiar values.
"Its decent, wholesome values, its celebration of the family, its unembarrassed portrayal of devout Christian faith…"
What's under the microscope here: David Cameron's rebuttal of Tony Blair's new legislative agenda? The Archbishop of Canterbury's suggestion that his church may "rethink women priests"? Not exactly, the line in question is a passionate endorsement by the Telegraph's theatre critic Charles Spencer.
The object of all this effusive praise: Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of A Sound of Music.
Wholesome values, family, Christianity – without question, a few of the Telegraph's favourite things.