Paper Monitor

11:35 UK time, Monday, 15 February 2010

A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.

It's the question on every holiday-maker's lips. As the winter grinds on into the half-term break prompting thoughts about the chance of grabbing a short break in the sun, the Guardian nails its angle: should holidaymakers be going back to Burma?

But before you dive into the 1,200 words of text and wrestle with the subtleties of this particular moral conundrum, don't bother - the teaser text on the front offers what the Guardian's John Crace, author of the Digested Read column, would describe as the "Digested read, digested": "Wish you were here? Why it is time for tourists to return to Burma".

So that settles that then.

Meanwhile, Paper Monitor has spent the morning wondering about the mystery of the prime minister's missing tears.

Last night those viewers who were, presumably, not channelling the spirit of St Valentine with a romantic candlelight meal, may instead have sat down to watch the Piers Morgan interview with Gordon Brown on ITV.

Paper Monitor couldn't help but notice that while the interview elicited some raw and heartfelt emotions from Mr and Mrs Brown, the programme wasn't 100% true to the billing it received in the papers.

"Gordon Brown wells up as he speaks of daughter's death" - the Daily Telegraph
"Memories of lost daughter and son's illness reduce Brown to tears on TV" - the Scotsman
"Gordon Brown sobs for his tragic baby daughter" - Daily Mail

And yet if one visits the ITV Player, tears are absent.