Murdoch - New Name- Same $hite

Stiffler2

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0226/murdoch.html

Link Above, We all knew this would happen but it shouldn't have been allowed if he was at the top.

The Sun gets closed down by LAW due to hacking scandals.

Murdoch starts a new paper just being released called "The Sun on Sunday" instead of "The Sun"

The on Sunday part is in small letters below so at first glance it still looks like "The Sun".


What do AH's think of this, I know / think you all hate The Sun / these rags as much as I do. Should he have been allowed to start up a new paper with the same name or should he have been "closed for business" in the media industry since his scandal ??

Anyway my bottom line is "New Name - Same $hite"


Thoughts ?

Zebra3

Stiffler2 wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0226/murdoch.html

Link Above, We all knew this would happen but it shouldn't have been allowed if he was at the top.

The Sun gets closed down by LAW due to hacking scandals.

Murdoch starts a new paper just being released called "The Sun on Sunday" instead of "The Sun"

The on Sunday part is in small letters below so at first glance it still looks like "The Sun".


What do AH's think of this, I know / think you all hate The Sun / these rags as much as I do. Should he have been allowed to start up a new paper with the same name or should he have been "closed for business" in the media industry since his scandal ??

Anyway my bottom line is "New Name - Same $hite"


Thoughts ?

The Sun wasn't forced to close down.

News International closed NOTW because its brand was deemed "toxic".

smash

Stiffler2 wrote: »

Thoughts ?

Are there tits?

Mr E

I agree that it wasn't the Sun. There were no bewbs on Page 3.

Stiffler2

smash wrote: »

Are there tits?

Better be, not that I'd buy that rag anyway even if it was full of t!ts

Stiffler2

Apologies - I thought it was "The Sun" that was forced to close due to the hacking scandal ran by Murdoch ??

Have I mixed this up with a different paper / rag ?

curlzy

I like tits as much as the next girl :rolleyes: but I can honestly say I've never bought any of these papers, purely because I think they're muck and we'd be better off without them. No point moaning about those papers if you buy them really.

danniemcq

i was pleasently surprised last Sunday,

nowhere i went actually had it stocked. All other papers were there but no s*n on sunday.

may all the reporters develop horrible crotch rot and i hope there is a special place in hell for rupert "the twat" murdoch

emeraldstar

Stiffler2 wrote: »

Apologies - I thought it was "The Sun" that was forced to close due to the hacking scandal ran by Murdoch ??

Have I mixed this up with a different paper / rag ?

News of the World.

The King of Moo

There'll always be tabloids: there'll always be a market for them.

Sadly, there'll also be unethical journalistic practices. Murdoch and everyone involved in News International is despicable, but look at how quiet most of the papers (except the Guardian) were about phone hacking, until the Milly Dowler case was revealed and the scandal became impossible to ignore.

There'll always be an interest in salacious, sensationalised stories and celebrity gossip, so there'll always be journalists willing to do underhanded things to get/make up a scoop.

I find it too hard to hate The Sun particularly(except maybe because of their Hillsborough "reporting") because there's still The Daily Mail, The Mirror, The Star and the Irish/Sunday Independent.
They're all cut from the same cloth.

Skid

Stiffler2 wrote: »

The Sun gets closed down by LAW due to hacking scandals.




Thoughts ?

It was The News Of The World.

And the Publishers voluntarily closed it.

I love your attention to detail :rolleyes:

fergiesfolly

With a well researched article like this Op, you should consider a career in journalism. News Corp might look favourably at your cv.

Dravokivich

NOTW was the Sunday edition of The Sun anyway. Was pointless just shutting that down as the paper itself was still running. Now all they've done is rebrand the Sunday edition.

No suprise, was expecting it sooner or later.

Teyla Emmagan

Disappointed this thread is not about the A-Team.

Ellis Dee

Another "press baron" over there, CONrad Black, who once owned the Torygraph titles, will be released from a US Federal Institution for the Morally and Ethically Challenged (which those less sesquipedalian than him would just call a "prison") in a couple of months' time. A fierce rival of Murdoch and another power-hungry git, he made the mistake of stealing from the rich in the USA and got a few years' detention for his trouble.:)

Since he is a British citizen, he will be deported to the UK and, since he has a neck like a jockey's bollocks, will probably resume his seat in the House of Lards as "Baron Black of Crossharbour".:eek:

Just imagine the Sun's headlines if karma finally catches up with Murdoch - as it well might now that the US authorities have begun taking an interest in him - and he ends up in Black's vacant cell! Bubba will be waiting.:D:D

Badgermonkey

Stiffler2 wrote: »

Apologies - I thought it was "The Sun" that was forced to close due to the hacking scandal ran by Murdoch ??

Have I mixed this up with a different paper / rag ?

Yes, the News of the World.

Given the context, indignation and basic factual inaccuracies aren't a great mix.

Irish Halo

Zebra3 wrote: »

The Sun wasn't forced to close down.

News International closed NOTW because its brand was deemed "toxic".

Damn you that was my point.

Added reference though:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14070733
which includes speculation The Sun would go 7-day and a rebuff from NI

News International has refused to comment on rumours that the Sun could now become a seven-day-a-week operation.

"What happens to the Sun is a matter for the future," a spokeswoman for News International said. The Sun, another News International tabloid, is currently published from Monday to Saturday.

The Sun may have been popular in the UK but I could never fathom how it sold a single copy in Ireland

Stiffler2

Ok Ok, News of the World I get it, I get it.....

Thread still stands though as this is about a new paper released by the same guy etc etc...

we all knew it would happen sooner or later.

44leto

Isn't the Leveson inquiry now turning it's attention towards the Sun Newspaper, it appears they had the same practices, so they maybe equally as fukced.

I sometimes bought the NOTW it was good for the sport, but I use to buy a porno mag to conceal the NOTW in so no-one would know I read it.

mikemac1

They are all as bad as each other

The Daily Mail have been running stories every day about the issues in News International.
Terrible paper but superb website

But reverse the situation and the Sun and associated newspapers would do the exact same if the Daily Mail ran into trouble

The King of Moo

mikemac1 wrote: »

They are all as bad as each other

The Daily Mail have been running stories every day about the issues in News International.
Terrible paper but superb website

But reverse the situation and the Sun and associated newspapers would do the exact same if the Daily Mail ran into trouble

I kept checking the Mail's website everyday during the big days of the hacking inquiry.
Anytime anything negative came out about The Sun, it was there front and centre on the website, impossible to ignore.

Then when Hugh Grant goes on for a few days about the Daily Mail hacking his phone and their generally appalling ethical standards: you'd find one tiny article with a tiny headline right down at the bottom of their sprawling homepage :rolleyes:.

tigger123

Really annoys me at the public outrage over the Milly Dowler case and everything that came out in the Levison enquiry ... and then people will happily trot out and buy the Sun on Sunday?!

Murdoch is, amongst other things, a canny business man. He wouldn't be launching it if he didn't know it would sell.

Biggins

Dravokivich wrote: »

NOTW was the Sunday edition of The Sun anyway. Was pointless just shutting that down as the paper itself was still running. Now all they've done is rebrand the Sunday edition.

No suprise, was expecting it sooner or later.

All true.
If a count was done, I think you would find a good lot hired for the new paper, are just NOTW staff.
(Makes sense to do this from skill point of view)
Its still a re-branded NOTW paper though in essence I feel.

bonzodog2

Did anyone seriously expect anything different ?

tipptom

50p in UK for the launch,€1 here,no wonder Rupert deigned us with his precence in Ireland today to say what a great job his Irish staff was doing for him changing pound signs from lifted UK articles to euro signs for Ireland.