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muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts) Fri Aug 17, 2012, 12:25 PM Aug 2012

See last year's thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x34409

You know when Tom Daley has become a national pin-up, when he can be the preferred 'A level picture' for 2 newspapers - the Times and the Telegraph: http://www.frontpagestoday.co.uk/

The Daily Mash's take: "A Level students '20% less fit' than last year"

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A level pictures: Tom Daley displaces nubile girls (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Aug 2012 OP

The media has just spun A levels together with its Olympics coverage fedsron2us Aug 2012 #1

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1. The media has just spun A levels together with its Olympics coverage

Fri Aug 17, 2012, 05:02 PM

Aug 2012

It is topical and it is easy copy for journalists who want to fill out their column inches without working too hard.