Paper Monitor
10:27 UK time, Friday, 24 September 2010
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
What's this? A pressie?
DVD giveaways are back.
There's a Cliff Richard film in the Daily Mail, which could be described as a match, in the chaste sense, made in heaven.
So, what film is it? Summer Holiday? I love that bit where they all get on the bus and...
Not that one? Oh. Well, what about The Young Ones? Or Expresso Bongo?
Not those either. It's a DVD called Two A Penny, which was apparently funded by and features evangelist Billy Graham. If you like action flicks, it's probably not for you.
The Telegraph is also in generous mood, promising a John Wayne film with tomorrow's paper. Wayne fans will probably be happier than Richard fans with the giveaway, because it's The Shootist, Wayne's final film in which he plays a dying man, opposite James Stewart.
Other papers are also waging celluloid war, but the Times and Guardian rise above the handouts, or maybe they just couldn't afford them. Instead they supply journalistic giveaways, with a Film Power List in the Guardian and a feature on therapy cinema which the Times trails on its front page.
Returning briefly to matters of Christianity, it's noticeable how quickly the Pope has disappeared from view, after the seven-day glut.
There are no papal mentions, which reflects how quickly the news wheel turns.
Let's hope editors take heed of the Telegraph, which has a story that warns: "Turning your back on God could be bad for your health"
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