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Stick it Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the "Sun" Newspaper
Chippindale, Peter, Horrie, Chris
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Description for Stick it Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the "Sun" Newspaper
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The SUN is more than a newspaper. It is, in its own words, a phenomenon - the biggest-selling daily paper in the English language, fascinating 12 million readers and making its owner, Rupert Murdoch, a profit of over 1 million a week. The SUN has unashamedly dragged journalistic standards into the gutter. This book takes you inside the machine to tell in graphic and often hilarious detail the story of how the paper has evolved from cashing in on the permissive society of the sixties, to helping Maggie win the election in 1979, to the world of foul-mouthed Kelvin MacKenzie ... Read more
The SUN is more than a newspaper. It is, in its own words, a phenomenon - the biggest-selling daily paper in the English language, fascinating 12 million readers and making its owner, Rupert Murdoch, a profit of over 1 million a week. The SUN has unashamedly dragged journalistic standards into the gutter. This book takes you inside the machine to tell in graphic and often hilarious detail the story of how the paper has evolved from cashing in on the permissive society of the sixties, to helping Maggie win the election in 1979, to the world of foul-mouthed Kelvin MacKenzie ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pocket Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780671017828
SKU
V9780671017828
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Chippindale, Peter, Horrie, Chris
Peter Chippindale was born in 1945. He began writing seriously as a front page investigative journalist on the Guardian. He then went on to make documentaries for London Weekend Television before leaving to concentrate on his writing. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen non-fiction books, including the critically acclaimed trilogy on the media industry - ... Read more
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