Paper Monitor
13:20 UK time, Thursday, 28 June 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Two hardy summer staples are to the fore in today's cocktail of newsprint.
It's the first week of Wimbledon and the red tops can't get enough of British hopeful Heather Watson who made history yesterday, making it - wait for it - into the third round. She is the first British woman to get so far (gulp) in a decade.
Okay so on closer inspection it's not that historic after all.
on the front - "Heather on fire" - and at the top of page five - "Smoked salmon and sweat spur Briton to victory" is the rather weird headline. It's sure to get the retired colonels in Godalming and Tunbridge Wells rustling their copies.
Her breakfast choice of smoked salmon, eggs and toast on the side, is what most papers home in on.
But there's also who is watching. Remember, Paper Monitor's third law of journalism: royalty + adjacent celebrity = news.
The Daily Mail gives almost as much space to a sequence of photos featuring Prince Charles giggling with Wilnelia Forsyth and her husband Sir Bruce. above informative captions like "Centre of attention: Wilnelia beams back at her host as Brucie laughs."
The Daily Star has stories featuring young ladies with fewer clothes. So poor Heather has to wait until page 17 for the inevitable "Tennis ace is a smash hit".
The paper deploys a speech bubble to good effect with a photo of Wilnelia, Sir Bruce and the Prince of Wales. "Nice to see one," Charles is saying to his neighbours.
So if female tennis players on the news pages is one summer staple, what is the other?
Ah, come in Peter and Abbey, who are joining us from a hot, foreign location with easy access to swimming pools and long lens photography.
above pictures of the "giant" footballer and "model wife" canoodling. The picture captions - "He stoops to conquer" - could teach the Mail a thing or two.
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