OT: The BBC Papers, The Sun and The Morning Star

[Nick Odell]

I like to look at the front pages of the morning papers on the BBC
website. Every night they show pictures of the front pages of the next
morning's printed editions and make brief comments about them then,
later, most of the pictures disappear to be replaced by an editorial
piece commenting on the newspaper contents. The Independent is never
pictured because, I presume, since it became on-line only it no longer
has an actual front page.

What I don't understand is why the Sun and the Morning Star never seem
to appear in the earlier headline roll-call and the Morning Star never
seems to appear at all. Occasionally the Sun on Sunday will show up
amongst the pictures (it appeared last Sunday, for example) and more
often than not the later editorial piece will make reference to the
headlines or contents of the Sun that's all. And the Morning Star?
Absolutely nothing seen for ages as far as I can recall. I even
checked to make sure that the Morning Star still has a print edition
before writing this. It does.

There's a very good case to be made along the lines of, who wants to
look at the Sun and the Morning Star anyway? But The Papers blog is a
compare-and-contrast exercise and I think that they both belong there.

Any thoughts?

Nick

[Serena Blanchflower]

Post by Nick Odell
I like to look at the front pages of the morning papers on the BBC
website. Every night they show pictures of the front pages of the next
morning's printed editions and make brief comments about them then,
later, most of the pictures disappear to be replaced by an editorial
piece commenting on the newspaper contents. The Independent is never
pictured because, I presume, since it became on-line only it no longer
has an actual front page.
What I don't understand is why the Sun and the Morning Star never seem
to appear in the earlier headline roll-call and the Morning Star never
seems to appear at all. Occasionally the Sun on Sunday will show up
amongst the pictures (it appeared last Sunday, for example) and more
often than not the later editorial piece will make reference to the
headlines or contents of the Sun that's all. And the Morning Star?
Absolutely nothing seen for ages as far as I can recall. I even
checked to make sure that the Morning Star still has a print edition
before writing this. It does.
There's a very good case to be made along the lines of, who wants to
look at the Sun and the Morning Star anyway? But The Papers blog is a
compare-and-contrast exercise and I think that they both belong there.
Any thoughts?
Nick

I agree. At one time, many years ago and in a different lifetime[1], I
used to pick up a paper, on my way into work each morning. It used to
amuse me to glance along the row of papers each morning to see the range
of headlines and which stories each paper considered worthy of being
above the fold, on the front page.

For part of this time, when I was getting either the Guardian or the
Indy (I forget which), one of my colleagues used to buy The Sun. The
rest of the department were always extremely rude about his choice of
paper but, guess which paper was constantly being borrowed at odd
moments! I used to enjoy looking through The Sun, after I'd read my
paper, to see how many stories made it into both titles. Surprisingly
often, the number was zero, if you excluded the sport and TV pages.


[1] and a different millennium, to boot