British Newspapers: Difference between revisions

* ''Daily Express'' - AKA "The Daily Sexpress" since its owner is Richard Desmond, a porn baron<ref> Shhhh! [[You Fool!]]! He sues people who call him that!</ref>, and the paper advertises his channels' programmes. Amusingly, however, the paper itself is very reactionary, and manages to convey an impression of being against porn in general terms. It seems to have an obsession with [[Useful Notes/Conspiracy Theories|Conspiracy Theories]] about the death of Princess Diana, which generates a surprising number of front-page stories for the paper even today and has led to the use of the nickname "The Di-ly Express" (most notably, when every other paper was printing front page stories about the anniversary terrorist attacks on London, the two Desmond titles used a Diana headline (''Express'') and a B-list-reality-show-contestant headline (''Star'')). However, it usually runs Diana stories on a Monday. [[Schmuck Bait|Guess which day has lowest newspaper sales.]] Subscribes to [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]] on occasion, having an almost unhealthy obsession with Madeleine McCann. Strangely missing in Hacker's speech<ref>though ''Express'' journalists showed up from time to time on ''[[Yes Minister]]''; William Hickey is noted as having described Hacker as "[[Unusual Euphemism|overwrought as a newt]]" in "[[Christmas Episode|Party Games]]"</ref>, although he'd probably say that it's "''read by the people who think the country ought to be run [[Nostalgia Filter|like they think it used to be]]''". Interestingly enough, the first newspaper in Britain to have a crossword and one the first to [[Foreshadowing|report on gossip and sports to a significant degree]]. Leon Trotsky wrote despatches for the ''Express'' for a while after Stalin chucked him out of the USSR.