All Posts Tagged With: "The Sun"
Coy about Coulson
Stephen Brook reports in MediaGuardian today that the Sun’s American editor, Emily Smith is coming back to London, and her replacement will be based in Los Angeles (where the celeb gossip is) rather than the East Coast (where the real news is).
Brook points out that Smith, and her successor, Peter Samson have both worked on the Sun’s Bizarre column, the principle gossip page in a paper that is owned by a man who mainlines on gossip. He reminds us that Bizarre is regarded as a stepping stone to higher places and has spawned a lot of hacks who have gone on to greater things.
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Rumple-chops unchecked
Rupert Murdoch’s highest ranking underling is off. Peter Chernin, LA-based President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corp apparently knows when he’s not wanted, is quitting while he’s ahead and won’t be staying on when his current contract expires in April – leaving the field open for a little internecine scrapping among the young Ruperts, while old Rumple-chops himself steps in to fill the gap temporarily, and pursue his own current hare, the New York Times.
And this isn’t just a matter of gossip. News Corp becomes increasingly dominant among the world’s news/influence peddlers every day. Even people who read the Sun and the NY Post have a vote.
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Ginger versus orange
Last week, at the London College of Communications, Sun editor, Rebekah Wade delivered the annual Hugh Cuddlip lecture to students of journalism.
In the old days, one of the first things they taught young hacks on the Chuffing Sodbury Argus was to make sure they always spelled the punters’ names right. Not, it seems, any more at the London College of Communications, the country’s premier hack school, who announced their up-coming lecturer as “Rebecca” Wade. I wonder if she was cross. You don’t go round spelling your name “Rebekah” unless you really care.
That, however, is not the point. More interesting perhaps are the criteria by which speakers are chosen to deliver this important lecture (past deliverers: Alastair Campbell, Paul Dacre, Andrew Marr and Michael Grade.) What, you might ask, could the editor of one of the most dishonest, self-serving and prurient of British tabloids have to tell any aspiring journalist that might enhance their future career, other than the clear knowledge that, if all else fails, you can always sell your soul?
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News International opens up the libel purse again
The Sun has been peddling porkies about the Osbournes (the ‘Ozzies’, not the ‘Georges’ this time). Battling Sharon of the aubergine hair has just walked away from the high court with a sackful of Murdoch loot after the ‘news’ paper had to dig into its coffers yet again – though maybe not so deep for old rumple-chops to notice or, at least, to care. After all, his British papers have been playing the Professional Foul for years. It’s a simple ploy; the paper thinks up a nasty, damning story claiming some spurious source about someone they think is currently out of public favour, or they shamelessly invade their privacy by sending clandestine video cameras into their private space, and sales get a nice big kick up the arse. They know that a high proportion of victims are reluctant to sue, but if they do, and win (which the victims usually do), the pay out + costs are often far lower than any of the Sun’s other, less effective sales promotions – especially when they can put juicy video clips up on their tacky website.
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Notting Hill Git
It’s OK – this isn’t another blog about the domestic life of the popular young Leader of the Opposition or his Shadow Chancellor or, for that matter, Ozzy’s mildly disgraced younger bro, who, it’s alleged, is setting up a bookmaking business in his parents’ Notting Hill home while he can’t be a doctor.
I just want to use the headline before the subs on the Sun, the Mirror, or even one of the junior ShagRags get round to it.
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Ginger whinger
For an editor of a national newspaper – if you choose to call the Sun a newspaper when there’s a strong case for reclassifying it as a comic – Rebekah Wade has a pretty flaky idea of how the law works. She told the Guardian today:
The point of concern is there is just one man making the law by setting a precedent sitting on his own. In a democracy that cannot be good for society. The point of having one solitary judge who is unelected and unaccountable who is setting a precedent in British law … I think a lot of people will be surprised that he sat alone in the Max Mosley case because there’s no jury in privacy cases.
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The Sun Sinks Lower
Those beneficent guys at News International have responded to the “Credit Crunch” (what hack was responsible for this beastly weasel?) in more ways than one.
Two weeks ago, Colin Myler, cuddly Lancastrian editor of the News of the Screws explained to a judge in the High Court that the reason they had chiselled their informant (Woman E) out of half her money for filming Max Mosley’s S&M session wasn’t that she failed to deliver any ‘Zieg Heil’ salutes, but as a result of the Credit Crunch.
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The Sun is howling this morning.
With a characteristic flourish of hyperbole, twisted logic and demi-truth the Sun proclaims that
“Yesterday was a dark day for British freedom.”
Their sister ShagRag, the News of the World has just been ordered to pay £60,000 in damages and £200,000 in costs to Max Mosley. That was a lot more than their legal boss, Tom Crone had bargained for and everyone in Wapping is feeling jumpy.
They say: “A judge representing power and privilege laid down the law on what newspapers can write about powerful and privileged public figures.”
In fact a judge interpreting the law ruled that to promise to pay a woman £25,000 to film events in a private dwelling in which a number of consenting and willing adults were engaged in unconventional sex constituted a clear breach of privacy, and awarded accordingly.
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Sienna in the Sun
After years of publishing saucily posed shots of semi-naked women with big mammaries and small brains, those wacky guys at the Sun just can’t understand that not every woman wants to be a Page 3 girl.
Nor can they tell the difference between an actress and glamour model – to them they’re just good-looking women with tits, and if the actresses won’t come in voluntarily, they feel it’s their duty to get them there anyway for their reader’s delectation.
Last year Sienna Miller took £37,500 from the Sun and the News of the World for publishing shots sold to them by renegade photographer, Warren Richardson. Sienna is an actress who accepts that from time to time, a movie part genuinely requires her to disrobe, but quite reasonably, she will only do it on a “closed” set, where no-one outside the production is allowed.
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