Paper Monitor
11:47 UK time, Wednesday, 26 December 2007
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Pity the poor newspaper reporters working Christmas Day to keep the nation informed on Boxing Day.
Except for Guardian readers who must forgo their fix for 48 hours because the paper has continued its tradition not to publish today.
Perhaps that's a wise move, given the paucity of news. The Queen's speech, archbishops' homilies and sales shopping are Boxing Day staples. But only the Sun and the Telegraph front pages produce genuine exclusives.
"ARISE SIR PARKY" proclaims the Sun, which says the 72-year-old chatshow host will receive a knighthood in the New Year Honours.
In typical fashion the paper pays a three-page homage to his career. Parky is mocked up as a medieval knight but the headline "SIR CHATALOT" suggests the pun wizards of Wapping are still on Christmas leave.
The skills of the Sun's stand-in sub editors are further exposed on the next page when a picture of the Queen laughing at a boy's Union flag hat is weakly headlined "MAJ HATTERS".
No such staffing crisis at the Daily Mirror, which is nearer the mark on that story with "ONE JUST HAT TO LAUGH".
Or at the Telegraph, where their defence and Afghanistan correspondents say MI6 agents have held secret talks with the Taleban.
The story was picked up by other media including, interestingly, where the nature of the medium means the web journalists have not enjoyed the same break afforded to their print colleagues.
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