Paper Monitor
11:36 UK time, Wednesday, 6 June 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Logo fever (yesterday's Paper Monitor) continues in the papers with continued coverage of the London 2012 games brand. Today, a link with epilepsy is the main line.
Headlinewise, following the Magazine鈥檚 own "" the Sun offers the 鈥淟ogo to go-go鈥 and the Mirror treads similar ground with the 鈥淣o-go logo鈥.
To produce better versions of the offending logo, the Sun recruits a 12-year-old boy, a blind woman and a macaque monkey called Katie. There鈥檚 also an effort from a 鈥淪un artist鈥, although Paper Monitor strongly favours the monkey.
There is no such fun in the Independent which, in tone, is rather like a GCSE Politics lesson today. Bono, a longtime friend of the Indie, is playing at being guest editor again, only this time it鈥檚 an Africa issue for Vanity Fair. Paper Monitor thinks it may have identified a new genre in the coverage of his efforts 鈥 Bono-hagiography, or Bonography perhaps. More anon.
In the Daily Mail there is righteous indignation over the Labour government鈥檚 enthusiasm for a . A comment piece is headlined 鈥淭HIS SICK JOKE鈥. Minister Ruth Kelly鈥檚 call to 鈥渋ncentivise voluntarism鈥 is dismissed as 鈥渦tter, ghastly drivel鈥. And a leader worries any day will turn out as the national 鈥淢inorities Day鈥. Ouch.
Elsewhere, the papers are full of love for the pregnant former Cheeky Vimto-quaffer Charlotte Church. In the Mail, she鈥檚 鈥渓ooking swell鈥 and over in the Sun, the caption reads Charlotte Cathedral. Charming.
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