07 July, 2011

News of the Screws

Two things we might have guessed:

The first is that News of the World will close. Next Sunday's edition will be its last. NOTW was first published in 1843. By 1950 it had become the biggest selling newspaper in the world, with between 8 and 9 million sales. Rupert Murdoch bought it in 1969.

The second thing we might have guessed? Murdoch will replace it with the Sun on Sunday. He isn't closing NOTW out of shame, but because it has become a contaminated brand

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