Paper Monitor
11:38 UK time, Monday, 11 June 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The Daily Mail is promising to tackle the burning questions of the day.
Today’s front page blurb says: “Do dogs have a sense of humour?”. Turn to page 26-27 and you find that the question isn't really addressed.
But fear not, disappointed dog lovers. On page 33 is a piece headlined “Can a dog be as intelligent as a child of 14 months?”. Now that’s what Paper Monitor calls a headline.
It is also only appropriate to raise our hat to Saturday’s Mail which featured an essay by AN Wilson, entitled “HELL-ON-EARTH.COM”.
Wilson has discovered a phenomenon called “the internet”. Worse still, there is something called “Web 2.0”, which is destroying society.
Porn, gambling, piracy, stealth advertising and privacy breaches all arouse ire in Wilson, but he also pours vitriol on Wikipedia.
“Wikipedia is now insidiously crammed with misinformation, much of it planted by special interest groups or malign individuals with axes to grind.”
Of course Wilson’s antipathy to the “error-crammed and often biased” encyclopaedia has nothing to do with his own amusing entry.
Over in the Mirror, there is a rather familiar looking “exclusive”. It’s 30 “trade secrets” of the Apprentice. It couldn’t have anything to do with this Magazine feature, could it?
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