Tag Archives: the sun

Will the farrago over former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie’s bizarre (and highly offensive) column about Everton’s Ross Barkley – Mckenzie compared him to an ape on the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster (below) – affect Rupert Murdoch’s bid for the ...

It’s not our job to puff up rival organs but The Drum provides a valuable service in having reporters at court, or at least accessing news feeds from there. The current entertainment at the Old Bailey is the trial of ...

If Labour’s Ed Miliband wins the General Election – or Labour ends up as the largest party, which is more likely – then it will be a well-deserved kick in the unmentionables for Britain’s increasingly absurd right wing press. As ...

It’s good to see the Mirror (Daily Mirror as was) carrying the fight to arch enemy the Sun, which it’s doing with this rather intelligent campaign from Quiet Storm. ‘Don’t Say Stupid – read the intelligent tabloid’ is likely to ...

What do the Sun newspaper and the four founders of M&C Saatchi have in common? Well they’re children of the 1960/70s, faced (as we all are) with the need to change with the times and, eventually, pass the baton. So ...

It’s rather doubtful that British newspaper the Sun loves anything apart from its own sales figures and pleasing Mr Murdoch. Grey London, the spearhead of WPP’s ‘Team News,’ is struggling manfully to make us love the unlovely tabloid and its ...

It’s going to be a big year for the Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper in the UK, one of the more profitable planks of his hived-off print business News Corp. The phone and computer hacking and corrupt payments trial of senior ...

Former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks (left) is finally to have her day in court, over two years after proceedings began against her on various counts including phone hacking, conspiring to commit misconduct in a public office (paying policemen for ...

Rupert Howell (left), a founder of the HHCL agency, boss of McCann in London and former client sales supremo at ITV, is set to be the CEO of the People tabloid newspaper if Journalist Sue Douglas’s consortium succeeds in raising ...