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It's demonstration time outside Television Centre again, this time because of Carol Thatcher being invited not to return to The One Show, though of course other programmes are available. The Daily Mail is very cross, saying that "friends of Carol say it was ´óÏó´«Ã½'s revenge on Maggie". And the Daily Telegraph asks "Was Thatcher sacked because of her mother?"

Of course Paper Monitor has no view on this whatsoever. But a corresponding question occurs - Was Thatcher hired because of her mother?

Elsewhere, Stephen Fry's adventures getting stuck in a lift connected to the world only via an iPhone and Twitter get a good look in. Twitter is ideal for newspapers keeping tabs on what celebrities are doing, though the lack of that element of exclusivity must be a bit frustrating for jobbing hacks. What joy is there in writing a story about Stephen Fry being stuck in a lift when anyone who wants could have found out about it two evenings before? [Beware slightly strong language.]

Of course, more than 2,000 regular Magazine readers know exactly what Twitter is best for - finding out what the Magazine is up to, of course. If you're a later adopter, you can .

The nation's sketch-writers have their pound of flesh with our esteemed colleague Mr Peston, who appeared before the Treasury Select Committee yesterday to talk about coverage of the banking crisis.

The Mail's "[his] sentences were coming out like giant sausages, as long as the Humber Bridge" (interpretations via Comments button below please).

The Times's "like a hotel toaster at breakfast". Good tries, but neither as palpable a hit as Clive James's "brown condom full of walnuts".

What else does one need to know? Well, according to an advert in today's papers for Vogue magazine, under a headline "All you need to know", it's some or all of these coverlines:

• BIGGER BOLDER BETTER - The earring makes a comeback
• SPRING'S BIG IDEAS - Fringing, acid brights, cool metallics and cosmic rocks
• The secrets of red carpet dressing
• MAD MEN - Style, sex and the small screen

Such enthusiasm for earrings strikes Paper Monitor as diverting but not the world's most pressing issue. had to be looked up to ascertain the exact meaning (note to self: must keep up more). Red carpet is obvious. But Mad Men sounds intriguing, and so long as it applies to the excellent TV series, that's something one can get on board with. If it applies to "mad men" in any other sense whatsoever, that, frankly, is like a sausage the size of the Humber Bridge.

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