February 11, 2011

Daily Telegraph front page

Above the fold the Telegraph's front page tells us we can get a £5 voucher tomorrow to spend at Body Shop, and highlights Pete Oborne's piece about Cameron and Europe. But clearly Oborne hasn't followed North's link to Mary Ellen Synon's excellent article. Obone tells us so much less.

Below the fold we are told we can read
  • Hannah Betts on Kate's new style - Gone is the drippy Sloaneiness and in its place an admirable sass

  • Matthew Norman on muzak - Why do restaurateurs think inept covers of Abba will enhance a meal?
Why do editors think such tripe will enhance a newspaper?

The Egyptian coverage includes a staggeringly misjudged Matt cartoon of someone in Tahrir Square saying "Surely we can't all be from the BBC?".

Misjudged first because I've not heard anyone complain about the BBC numbers, secondly because CNN and Aljazeera have at least as many covering this key story, thirdly because the BBC has oddly sent some reporters from Egypt to Israel, fouthly because coverage of the rest of Egypt seems to be non-existent, fifthly because it demeans the Egyptian demonstrators there, who are being pretty brave in large numbers, and lastly because it lends support to Egyptian government propaganda that it's all got up by foreign satellite television stations.

But the biggest clunker on the front page today must be in the Egyptian report, where their correspondents write:
But those in Tahrir Square were dumbfounded by the president's address.
No, they shouted in loud fury. As a glimpse at the television coverage would have told them.

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