All Posts Tagged With: "The Times"

MAX AND THE SCREWS KISS AND MAKE UP

March 11th, 2010 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

Max Clifford has made up with the News of the World after a four year tiff. He originally fell out with the Screws (when Andy Coulson was editor) over their rough treatment of someone called Kerry Katona (remember her?), who was then (but not now) his client. Posing as a white knight for that sad individual must have been a tricky position to maintain. I dare say Mr C is glad to have £1m gift from the paper as an excuse to climb down. (I’m told the Screws are still the best payers for celebrity trivia.)
 A  publicity agent like Max Clifford being paid a million quid by a Sunday newspaper is a very big story – but it doesn’t feature much in some papers.
Coverage in The Times – 0 words
                 The Sun – 0 words    
Are they asleep on the news desks at Wapping.

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The Wapping Testarossa roars up the greasy pole

June 29th, 2009 • Peter • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

SCREWS INTERNATIONAL have just announced that the Wapping Testarossa, Rebekah Wade will become Chief Executive of the Murdochs’ British newspaper operation in two months’ time. This expected upward move will put her in overall control of the Screws, the Sun, the Sunday Times, the Times, and freesheet, the London Paper. It is claimed that these titles (bar the freesheet) represent 40% of the UK market in National newspaper sales.

It is truly amazing to me that as a former editor/deputy editor of the Screws and the Sun who has made so many crass and blatant errors of journalistic judgement, she should be rewarded with this massive job. It says a lot, of course, about Rupert Murdoch’s priorities. But it’s alarming to consider how someone of the Testarossa’s low tastes and preoccupation with trivial bollocks is going to influence the direction of the not entirely worthless Sunday Times.

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