Paper Monitor
10:13 UK time, Wednesday, 18 April 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Remember Samantha Brick? Of course you remember Samantha Brick - the writer who provoked a Twitter hate campaign after declaring in the Daily Mail that
The feature generated so much attention and web traffic that the papers' commissioning team ordered up And And
And yet again the paper returns to Ms Brick, the gift that keeps on giving.
Today we do not hear from the lady herself directly, although a ragged-out reproduction of the original article is present.
It appears at the top of a first-person feature by writer Fiona Duff, who on the basis that her own allegedly average looks have apparently led to her enjoying plenty of friendships with more attractive women.
Or as the headline puts it: "Why do women love me for being a Plain Jane?"
It continues:
While Samantha says she has struggled to make female friends because women are jealous of her beauty, I think the opposite is true for me. The fact I'm no threat in the looks league means I've always had lots of pals.Some 800 words ensue in this vein. Paper Monitor has no view to express about whether Ms Duff is as ordinary-looking as she suggests.
But it is with genuine fascination that this column wonders just how the Mail's features desk will manage to come up with another Brick-related story idea.
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