Paper Monitor
11:36 UK time, Wednesday, 6 June 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Logo fever (yesterday's Paper Monitor) continues in the papers with continued coverage of the London 2012 games brand. Today, a link with epilepsy is the main line.
Headlinewise, following the Magazine’s own "" the Sun offers the “Logo to go-go” and the Mirror treads similar ground with the “No-go logo”.
To produce better versions of the offending logo, the Sun recruits a 12-year-old boy, a blind woman and a macaque monkey called Katie. There’s also an effort from a “Sun artist”, although Paper Monitor strongly favours the monkey.
There is no such fun in the Independent which, in tone, is rather like a GCSE Politics lesson today. Bono, a longtime friend of the Indie, is playing at being guest editor again, only this time it’s an Africa issue for Vanity Fair. Paper Monitor thinks it may have identified a new genre in the coverage of his efforts – Bono-hagiography, or Bonography perhaps. More anon.
In the Daily Mail there is righteous indignation over the Labour government’s enthusiasm for a . A comment piece is headlined “THIS SICK JOKE”. Minister Ruth Kelly’s call to “incentivise voluntarism” is dismissed as “utter, ghastly drivel”. And a leader worries any day will turn out as the national “Minorities Day”. Ouch.
Elsewhere, the papers are full of love for the pregnant former Cheeky Vimto-quaffer Charlotte Church. In the Mail, she’s “looking swell” and over in the Sun, the caption reads Charlotte Cathedral. Charming.
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