Paper Monitor
10:05 UK time, Monday, 20 August 2007
A service highlight the riches of the daily press.
The Daily Mail is quaking in its boots today. The Guardian reveals the chilling news that the venerable chronicle of all things Middle England is to be given the Super Size Me treatment for a programme on user-generated channel Current TV.
"London media liberal" Nick Angel is going on a 28-day news diet of nothing but the Daily Mail. Morgan Spurlock suffered liver problems, nausea, heart palpitations, depression and lethargy from his non-stop eating of Big Macs, but what will Mr Angel have to deal with? Paper Monitor can't wait.
Although in Media Guardian there is also a paean of sorts from a journalism professor who compares the Mail favourably with its Diana-obsessed, understaffed sibling, the Daily Express. Where does he get such ideas?
And the Express pulls off a Monday classic today, merging the obligatory Diana item with its perennial antipathy towards asylum seekers, with the news that the late princess's fund is giving money to support refugees' rights.
In the Daily Mirror and the Sun, there is shock and there is outrage.
On the front of the Mirror, the screamer headline is "TOO SCARED TO LEAVE OUR HOMES" beneath the legend "MIRROR POLL SHOCKER". It reveals that 50% of us feel less safe than 10 years ago. Sadly it finds no space to mention that the British Crime Survey suggests that violent crime has fallen 31% over the same period.
The Sun goes one better with "ANARCHY IN THE UK" under the banner "A NATION UNDER SIEGE" and garnished with the subheads "Yobs rule streets" and "Knife crime soars".
Much more of this and Paper Monitor might try the Daily Mail diet too.
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