Paper Monitor
13:22 UK time, Thursday, 17 March 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Paper Monitor knows a fair bit about features commissioning meetings.
Journos sit around, burbling on about "monkey tennis" and other Alan Partridge-style ideas.
But occasionally something is said that stops the assembled crew, rendering them speechless with the brilliance, the sheer audacity, of what is being suggested.
Or there's this feature in the Daily Mail .
There's women aged 26, 32, 40 and 56 and you have to guess which is which.
Further back in the Mail and we get to the letters page.
There you have a very Mailesque missive.
"Will DCI John Barnaby of Midsomer Murders soon have a one-legged black lesbian detective sergeant with a Scottish accent?"
Paper Monitor likes the way a Scottish accent also qualifies as exotica in the world of Midsomer.
Over in the Daily Express, there are four letters about Midsomer.
One of the Express's famous phone-in polls has established that 99% of readers support a white-only detective show. Today's poll is more of the same, asking if Brian True-May should be allowed to start working again immediately. Paper Monitor is predicting another North Korea-style election result.
It's put even more bluntly in the Daily Star's textmaniacs.
jaywalm says: "brian true-may 4 prime minister"
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