Paper Monitor
11:26 UK time, Wednesday, 2 April 2008
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Society changes. Newspapers change with it.
And so in the Daily Mail and Daily Express there is coverage of a new firm that has been set up to sell wedding dresses to pregnant brides-to-be.
Both papers note that this was once something deeply frowned upon, but otherwise pass no negative comment. Ah, how things change.
But do not fear, there is still a little something for those who prefer things the way they used to be. The Liberal Democrat leader, who reportedly said he had slept with 鈥渘o more than 30鈥 women in a magazine interview, is branded 鈥淣ick Cleggover鈥 (copyright 鈥 the Sun) and a 鈥減rat鈥 in the Mail. A couple of pages on and Amanda Platell is haranguing him for his 鈥渋dle boasting鈥 and being 鈥渦ngentlemanly鈥.
The Times's People column, meanwhile, has an apology for readers of its own fun at Clegg's expense, "for missing the chance to make any of those excellent puns like 'Cleggover' or 'Cleggs-akimbo' that appeared elsewhere... It shall not happen again."
And there are raised eyebrows in both the Mail and Express for Max Mosley, the president of motorsport governing body, the FIA. After garish allegations about his private life in the News of the World, both middle-market tabs run a two-page spread on the man.
The Mail makes plentiful mention of Mosley鈥檚 father Oswald, the fascist leader and friend of Hitler. But it finds no room for a factbox on the Mail鈥檚 early 1930s coverage of Oswald Mosley鈥檚 political adventures or its famous headline 鈥淗urrah for the Blackshirts鈥.
Ah, these space restrictions. Paper Monitor shares the pain.
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