Paper Monitor
10:35 UK time, Wednesday, 5 August 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Day two of what could either be called Bensonmania or carpmania. Indicate preference using the letters form.
After yesterday's , one of the British angling community's best loved carp, the Sun brings more bad news.
Benson's fishery has lost another whopper, a mirror carp called "The Creature". Weighing in at 64lb the Sun helpfully explains this is the size of a large dog.
But Paper Monitor finds this single column of tragedy is dwarfed by the Daily Mail's journalistic endeavour in pursuing a follow-up to the Benson tragedy.
For it has and the men who have given their lives to catching the monster.
There are 28 pictures of lucky men (and they ARE all men), with name, the date they caught Benson and the weight of the fish at capture. This stat attack allows the Mail to establish that Benson was a bit of a yo-yo dieter. Sadly, though, there's no anotated image, a la Ulrika, betraying exactly where Benson's dietry regime paid dividends.
But it's the quotes from the anglers that give real pathos to the story.
Steve Broad is the pick of the bunch, describing a "28-month love affair" with the hungry fish.
"In the driving rain, soaked and muddy, I pulled the carp towards me and looked down. There lay my obsession - Benson."
It's all the power and emotion of Moby Dick, but on a budget.
Elsewhere in the tabs, the story of the day is that former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq was out and about in a sheer skirt with a lining that rode right up to reveal her underwear.
Cue a raft of sticky-backed plastic jokes.
Ho ho etc.
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