Murdoch's new Sun on Sunday rolls off presses

[MADem]

Rupert Murdoch's Sun on Sunday tabloid is on the news stands for the first time today, with the tycoon saying he wanted the paper replacing the scandal-hit News of the World to sell over two million copies.
The 80-year-old personally attended a printworks in Hertfordshire, north of London, on Saturday night to oversee the production of what he hopes will be the most-read weekly newspaper in Britain.
The front page featured an interview with Amanda Holden, a British television personality who came near death after the birth of her daughter, with the headline: "My heart stopped for 40 seconds."
The paper stuck largely to the daily paper's format, keeping the usual large red masthead saying "The Sun" and just adding a small yellow sun and the word "Sunday" beneath it to show that is the weekly edition....

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0226/murdoch.html

[mia]

1. The Sun will probably continue to do well/

I hope that Murdoch seizes the chance to save his soul.

[tjwmason]

2. Rupert Murdoch has a soul?

Now that would be front-page worthy news...

[MADem]

3. Ha--that was quick! Well done! nt

[LeftishBrit]

7. Indeed!

The only thing he saves is money. Pots of it.

[T_i_B]

4. Right on cue.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/feb/27/sun-culture-illegal-payments-leveson

Hours after Rupert Murdoch's defiant gamble of launching a Sunday edition of the Sun, the head of the police investigations into illegal behaviour by journalists spelled out startling details of what she called a "culture of illegal payments" at the title.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers told the Leveson inquiry that one public official received more than £80,000 in total from the paper, currently edited by Dominic Mohan. Regular "retainers" were apparently being paid to police and others, with one Sun journalist drawing more than £150,000 over the years to pay off his sources.

"The cases we are investigating are not ones involving the odd drink, or meal, to police officers or other public officials," she said. "Instead, these are cases in which arrests have been made involving the delivery of regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money to small numbers of public officials by journalists."

"There appears to have been a culture at the Sun of illegal payments, and systems have been created to facilitate such payments whilst hiding the identity of the officials receiving the money."

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The Sun! Now Bribing the Police 7 Days a Week!

[LeftishBrit]

6. A friend of mine read it out of curiosity...

She said it took 10 minutes to read, had no news in it, and had pictures of women with big tits, which sounds like any issue of the Sun since it began.

[MADem]

8. Yep, don't bring it to visit your auntie in the convent, that's for sure.

Unless you've taken page 3 out first, at a minimum.

[dipsydoodle]

9. None of that on page 3.

Not even these.