Fury at ITV comedy award deceit

ITV receives universal condemnation in Friday's papers, after it was fined a record £5.68m for wrongly giving a comedy award to stars Ant and Dec.

The Independent describes it as "a grotesque betrayal of viewers' trust", adding that there has been "something rotten in the ethics" of broadcasting.

The Daily Mail calls the channel "the cheats' choice" and asks, "Can you believe a thing you see on ITV?"

While the Sun's editorial simply says: "ITV should hang their heads in shame."

'Uniformed gangsters'

The crisis in Burma following Cyclone Nargis makes headlines again.

The country's military regime is guilty of a "criminal failure", the Times says, for failing to warn its vulnerable population of the storm's advance.

The Financial Times calls the junta "uniformed gangsters" whose failure to help its people "has already earned it a place in the annals of infamy".

And the Guardian says Burma "cannot reconcile the crying need for a massive international aid programme with the openness needed to direct it".

'Revolting crimes'

The face of Josef Fritzl, the man who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, is again on some front pages.

"The beast of the dungeon" is how the Sun describes him, expressing disbelief at his apparent claim that he was "rescuing daughter Elisabeth from an immoral life".

The 73-year-old Austrian's "revolting crimes" made "a mockery of family life", the Daily Mirror says.

And the Times thinks he sees himself as "a prisoner of his own desires", too deluded to understand their impact.

'Sarcasm and queuing'

Finally, there is outrage at the opinions given by travel writers in the latest "Rough Guide to England".

The Daily Telegraph claims the book portrays England as "the most irritating place on Earth".

Visitors are told to expect a nation "obsessed with Royals and minor celebrities, devoted to sarcasm and queuing", the Daily Express writes.

But it is not all bad, says the Daily Mail. "Bastions of civilisation, like Radio Four, are jealously protected."