Paper Monitor
12:46 UK time, Tuesday, 1 September 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
After last week's opening salvo from the Daily Mail in the War of Anne Robinson's Face, Ms Robinson is leading a counterattack on two fronts - the Daily Mirror and the Independent.
Predictably, the former seems to be in glorious ignorance of the latter's access to the TV quiz show dominatrix, adopting the old red top tactic of splashing "exclusive" all over its article safe in the knowledge that the Press Complaints Commission will always have bigger fish to fry.
But it's the Indy which comes up with the best line, as that before Boris Johnson was picked, she had been invited to stand for Mayor of London on a Conservative Party ticket.
While the Indy mentions Robinson's cosmetic surgery almost in passing, it's the meat and drink of the Mirror's interview.
For those who missed this gripping yarn, last week the Mail ran a newly released publicity shot of Robinson suggesting she had embarked on a further round of surgical enhancement. Of course, the impact was heavily diluted by the fact that Robinson has, in the past, tended to celebrate her cosmetic "enhancements" rather than shy away from them.
Anyway, the Mirror bills today with the claim that "TV's Anne Robinson breaks silence on that picture".
So does Robinson 'fess up to a cosmetic surgery addiction? Er, no.
The Mail, meanwhile, has moved on already, finding solace in the company of another female septuagenarian TV personality - "Dame" Joanna Lumley. And what's this? The surgery question is not even mooted - perhaps because the interview is just a re-run of yesterday's Guardian G2 lead. Curiously, though, it's not a straight lift - the Mail has added some of its own touches to Laura Barton's interrogation of La Lumley.
Compare and contrast, if you will, these opening sentences:
- the Guardian.
- the Daily Mail.
Finally, the Daily Telegraph has us all in fits of panic with its lead story - "Power cuts to hit 16m homes" it says, claiming that demand for electricity in the UK will exceed supply within eight years.
Concerning, for sure, but at least the banning of those old energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs might help matters. The Telegraph, however, seems confused.
"Light bulbs - How you can beat the ban," it says on the front.
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