Saturday, February 18, 2012

Sun has not set on departed News AMIT ROY

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120218/jsp/frontpage/story_15150826.jsp

Sun has not set on departed News

London, Feb. 17: Rupert Murdoch appears to believe in reincarnation.

The News Corporation boss has announced plans to launch The Sun on Sunday, prompting suggestions that he is bringing back to life the News of the World he killed off in July last year over phone hacking.

Far from also killing off The Sun, which some thought he might have to do because it is getting increasingly tangled in a scandal over corrupt payments to police officers, he announced the daily paper would extend its publication to take in an edition on Sunday.

However, no one will be fooled by the suggestion thatThe Sun on Sunday will be merely the daily paper publishing on Sunday.

Since the News of the World ceased publication after its last issue on July 10 last year, some Sunday readers have missed its unique mix of sex and scandal.

Footballers, ministers and celebrities are still enjoying their "nights of passion"; only theNews of the World hasn't been around to record the frailties of human nature.

Last Saturday, The Sun burned a little less bright after five of its most senior journalists "were arrested on suspicion of corruption.…"

At the time the News of the World was closed, it was selling 2.8 million copies a week, though the last "souvenir" issue recorded sales of 4.5 million copies. The closure after 168 years of publication was a huge blow to the finances of News International, which owns the News of the WorldThe SunThe Times and The Sunday Times.

Bringing back the News of the World under a different name and taking on most of the journalists who lost their jobs last year will be a popular move at News International.

Murdoch, who flew into Britain last night on his private jet, sent an email to staff (which could be read without any need for hacking) announcing the launch of The Sun on Sunday.

Labour MP Chris Bryant, who has led the phone-hacking campaign, criticised Murdoch's decision. He said: "I think it is massively premature…. He (Murdoch) is meant still to be 'draining the swamp' and yet the swamp is meant to produce another newspaper."


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