Paper Monitor
12:35 UK time, Monday, 24 March 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Just in case any of you slept through Easter Sunday (ah, how Paper Monitor wishes...), it snowed. In many parts of the country, including London which, as previously noted, makes it NEWS and so manna for picture editors seeking some visual spice for their front pages on a quiet holiday weekend.
Perhaps Paper Monitor is a tad too literal minded to ever cut it on a Fleet St picture desk, but there is nary a sign of a snow-shrouded Easter egg hunt.
Instead the Financial Times has the Archbishop of Canterbury arriving in a snow flurry to deliver his Easter sermon attacking the "creed of greed", as the headline writer neatly puts it.
The Daily Mail has Sir Paul McCartney's divorce lawyer rugged up against the cold in furry hat and muff, saving its "Easter Wonderland" pics for a double page spread inside, complete with a step-by-step guide to building your own igloo.
The Times opts for a member of the Household Cavalry wincing as he shivers in the snow during the Changing of the Guard, while the Daily Telegraph's front page could double as a Christmas card with its pic of a stag with snow-covered antlers.
But it gets very seasonal with its reader giveaway of a rose bush and secateurs (gardening being as traditional as chocolate eggs at this time of year). Although perhaps only the hardiest of green thumbs will venture out to do a spot of pruning in this weather.
And the Independent? It troubles itself not with fripperies such as Easter or snow. But gardening does get a look in in the shape of a feature on the craze for allotments.
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