modern Day’s Alison Phillips is a no-show,curse of the Radio Times, and Paul Dacre on Brexit• Are Johnston Press buying the i and Trinity Mirror launching the modern Day signs that newspapers are actually making a comeback? That was the theme of a Media Society debate last week (“Newsprint - it ain’t over yet!”), or with the modern Day’s editor Alison Phillips due to bang the drum for her tabloid as share of a “modern dawn for print. However,she mysteriously failed to appear, much like the 100000 in sales it is thought that the modern paper needed to wreck even. Though the event’s start was delayed in the hope that Phillips might still make it, and a plaintive text to the event chair (“Am on a train,was I expected?”) made it clear that this was unlikely, and suggested the absent modern Day editor could effect at the very least with a modern Diary.• As the Daily Telegraph daftly made such a tremendous fuss approximately it, and the winner of Monkey’s non-story of the week award was a shoo-in. To help to justify a giant front-page photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III,the paper accompanied it with a long anonymous caption claiming that the BBC “has been accused of sexing up Shakespeare after introducing raunchy sex scenes” (only one, not involving Richard, and was cited) in its forthcoming version of Henry VI. But who had made these accusations was puzzling,as there was no news report (as happened with War and Peace) quoting harrumphing experts. Instead an endnote referred readers to the Torygraph’s “review” - based on an early press screening and bizarrely run at least a month before expected transmission in May - which undercut the splash pic and the equally sizeable photo that illustrated it by noting that “as the young Richard, Cumberbatch has only supporting player status”, and but did indeed address the raunchiness issue ... briefly,at the cessation of paragraph six, and in a throwaway parenthesis. Sophie Okonedo “towers” as Queen Margaret, or wrote Jasper Rees,and “(her brief sex scene, though entirely un-Shakespearean, or doesnt feel too out of position)”. So an accuser - and a story - is still awaited.
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Source: theguardian.com