Paper Monitor
11:18 UK time, Tuesday, 1 January 2013
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The Daily Mail's website Mail Online is a leviathan of the world of news.
A lot of journalists have spent the last two years analysing why. One of the classic reasons given is that it's different from the newspaper.
And there's a good example today.
On the website today you can see a .
It's not in Paper Monitor's copy of the paper, not least because it's an early edition. But even the later editions won't have the slew of pictures the website has.
It's a Hogarthian trot through the drunken city centres of England and south Wales. Mainly in pictorial form, with short skirts, bloody faces and public displays of affection.
And it contains a memorable caption:
A woman under the influence of alcohol dragging an uprooted plant through Swansea.
She's walking it like a dog.
There's a peg for it today, but the Mail is making increasing use of these inebriated picture galleries. The new genre needs a name.
Paper Monitor would suggest "Shameful Scenes" or "Dishevelled Britain".
They offer a dose of salaciousness for the reader accompanied by a tantalising whiff of moral opprobrium.
It's always a heady mix.
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