Yeah, just gets better and better. You would think this would put that rag out of business but of course it probably wont.
Interesting piece. Hugh Grant. Who would have known!
Let’s imagine that BP threw an extravagant party, with oysters and expensive champagne. Let’s imagine that Britain’s most senior politicians were there — including the Prime Minister and his chief spin doctor. And now let’s imagine that BP was the subject of two separate police investigations, that key BP executives had already been arrested, that further such arrests were likely, and that the chief executive was heavily implicated.
Let’s take this mental experiment a stage further: BP’s chief executive had refused to appear before a Commons enquiry, while MPs who sought to call the company to account were claiming to have been threatened. Meanwhile, BP was paying what looked like hush money to silence people it had wronged, thereby preventing embarrassing information entering the public domain.
And now let’s stretch probability way beyond breaking point. Imagine that the government was about to make a hugely controversial ruling on BP’s control over the domestic petroleum market. And that BP had a record of non-payment of British tax. The stench would be overwhelming. There would be outrage in the Sun and the Daily Mail — and rightly so — about Downing Street collusion with criminality. The Sunday Times would have conducted a fearless investigation, and the Times penned a pained leader. In parliament David Cameron would have been torn to shreds.
Instead, until this week there has been almost nothing, save for a lonely campaign by the Guardian. Because the company portrayed above is not BP, but News International, owner of the Times, the Sunday Times, the News of the World and the Sun, approximately one third of the domestic newspaper market. And last week, Jeremy Hunt ruled that Murdoch, who owns a 39 per cent stake in BSkyB, can now buy it outright (save for Sky’s news channel). This consolidates the Australian-born mogul as by far the most significant media magnate in this country, wielding vast political and commercial power.
Don't be fooled by the end of the NOTW.
Its the UKs biggest selling Sunday - no way Murdoch will simply let that fade. There are already strong rumours it will just come back as "The Sun on Sunday". And everything will continue as normal.
Don't be fooled by the end of the NOTW.
Its the UKs biggest selling Sunday - no way Murdoch will simply let that fade. There are already strong rumours it will just come back as "The Sun on Sunday". And everything will continue as normal.
There are already strong rumours it will just come back as "The Sun on Sunday".
On the bright side, all this makes the Sunday Independent and journalists like Brendan O'Connor look almost half decent....
Nah, they're still incompetent nobs, just not odious incompetent nobs.
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