Paper Monitor
11:38 UK time, Thursday, 18 June 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The debate about the anonymity of bloggers goes on, not with reference to Paper Monitor's gender, thankfully, but over at the Times following the paper's court victory over the naming of a secret policeman blogger (see yesterday).
The paper is being flamed by angry readers, who give it the kind of treatment ("shame on you") that we're accustomed to getting here at the ´óÏó´«Ã½. But there are a few palpable hits, for instance: ""
Most interesting of all is a blog by the paper's own crime correspondent, who is : "We must confess to mixed feelings about the High Court ruling which allows the name of the award-winning blogger Nightjack to be published. His revelation as Detective Constable Richard Horton is the 'fruits of detective work' by our colleague Patrick Foster, The Times' media correspondent. A dogged piece of journalistic digging."
Get him!
Meanwhile, the expenses scandal is back, by the way. Feels like an old friend coming back off holiday. The heavily blacked-out documents have now been published by the House of Commons authorities - you can do a postcode search for your MP's receipts on on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ News website.
The Daily Telegraph, which as you'll remember has all the uncensored documents, announces that at the weekend it will be including a free magazine with all MPs' expenses in it. The magazine will, rather nicely, have a duck on the cover.
Paper Monitor just feels sorry for the nation's paperboys and papergirls as they lug hundreds of extra pages around on Saturday morning. Industrial injuries on a massive scale are sure to be seen. The MPs didn't think of that when they claimed for their Tunnocks Teacakes and porridge, did they! Inconsiderate bunch.
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