Paper Monitor
11:14 UK time, Thursday, 26 February 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
After yesterday's Paper Monitor highlighting the sharp observations in the Daily Mail about women's sartorial choices, today's edition is unashamedly focused on the fairer sex.
First stop has to be the Daily Telegraph, which is never shy of celebrating the female form in all its Home Counties spendour.
Step forward... you guessed it: Keira Knightley, who adorns page four, to support a story on the axing of a King Lear film because of the credit crunch (Hello Crunch Creep! Are you still with us?).
Writing in the Times, newspaper columnist and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 presenter Libby Purves tells of her stab at stand-up comedy for Comic Relief. Her switch from writing to comedy surely represents a journey most travelled in the other direction, with the wealth of (mostly male) comedians now penning columns... Dom Jolly, Frank Skinner, David Mitchell and so on.
As the only remaining daily that can't do full colour on all pages, the Express works admirably within its constraints to produce a gallery of Britain's finest statues - an artform that has never demanded much in the way of varying hues.
It's a fine idea, and the Magazine should know. After all, it too.
X Factor judge Cheryl Cole is the person most bosses would employ, according to the Star, while the Sun has a gem of a story about how actress Brenda Blethyn opened a new library in her home town of Ramsgate - and paid a fine for a book she borrowed 50 years ago.
Final word must goes to the Mail, which prides itself on how connected it is to its "femail" audience. And all zillion of them would have had a laugh today at the sight of one of the paper's portly male writers wearing a "male girdle" to give him a flat stomach.
"Here's a list of things women can keep for themselves," writes a rather short-of breath Vincent Graff, "window shopping, shoe envy... and a belief that you can 'visibly streamline' your body by placing the fat bits inside a piece of clothing that is made of posh elastic and is three sizes too small."
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