Murdoch

The Sun and Murdoch

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The Sun is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Since The Sun on Sunday was launched in February 2012, the paper has been a seven-day operation.

Owner Murdoch

Murdoch found he had such a rapport with Larry Lamb over lunch that other potential recruits as editor were not interviewed and Lamb was appointed as the first editor of the new Sun.

In January 1986 Murdoch shut down the Bouverie Street premises of The Sun and News of the World, and moved operations to the new Wapping complex in East London, substituting the electricians' union for the print unions as his production staff's representatives and greatly reducing the number of staff employed to print the papers; a year-long picket by sacked workers was eventually defeated.

Murdoch bought the dying newspapers the sun in 1969 and changed the paper into a tabloid format and reduced print costs using the same printers. Murdoch later on got the ownership of the times as he had good connections with Lord Thomson who was tired of making a loss so he gave the company over to Murdoch in the hope that he could revive the newspaper.

Phone hacking scandal

Murdoch was involved in a big scandal in 2011 which he got in big trouble and loads of investigations of him and his son James with the phone hacking scandal.

Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities.

On July 2013 Exaro and Channel 4 news broke the story of a secretly recorded tape. The tape was recorded by Sun journalists and in it Murdoch can be heard telling them that the whole investigation was one big fuss over nothing, and that he, or his successors, would take care of any journalists who went to prison.

History

Sun before Murdoch in 1965 was actually a broadsheet newspaper. And in 1969 the sun was rumoured to be losing 2m a year and having a circulation of 800,000 that year was the year was the year where Murdoch took over as IPC was rumoured was rumoured to sell the business to cut the losses.

Sex was used as an important element in the content and marketing the paper from the start, which Lamb believed was the most important part of his readers' lives. The first topless Page 3 model appeared on 17 November 1970. A topless Page 3 model gradually became a regular fixture.

Page 3 was finally terminated in 2015 in January after the sun defending it for 40 years which was the thing that the sun was most known for in their history. However the ‘page 3’ feature was gone the sun still do similar things with models in other pages but not so openly as before.

Political view

The sun are a right wing newspaper as they’ve supported conservative a number of times by supporting labour instead of conservative but they haven’t always gone with conservatives as they’ve gone with labour in the past and publicly said that they would support any able politician who would describe himself as a Social Democrat. However in 2009 they went back to supporting the conservatives and since then they’ve supported conservative ever since

Politically, the Sun in the early Murdoch years remained nominally Labour-supporting. It advocated a vote for the Labour Party led by Harold Wilson in the 1970 General Election, with the headline "Why It Must Be Labour”, but by February 1974 it was calling for a vote for the Conservative Party led by Edward Heath while suggesting that it might support a Labour Party led by James Callaghan or Roy Jenkins. In the October election an editorial asserted: "ALL our instincts are left rather than right and we would vote for any able politician who would describe himself as a Social Democrat." In the 1975 referendum on Britain continuing membership of the European Economic Community, it advocated a vote to stay in the Common Market.

Suns view on brexit. The sun endorsed the leave campaign in the brutish referendum urging all its readers to leave the EU. However this front cover was only for England and wales but for Northern Ireland and Scotland they had different covers

2009 the sun were not so clear of who they were supporting politically when the country was under Gordon Brown. However Murdoch built a relationship with conservative leader David Cameron so the sun started supporting the conservatives again and have been since 2009 but at the moment it’s a bit unclear with brexit

Celebrities and controversy

The sun started to use celebrities to make rumours about them. They were mostly pop stars and very famous including Elton john and most of the rumours where about sexual orientation. The Sun ran a series of false stories about the pop musician Elton John from 25 February 1987. They began with an invented account of the singer having sexual relationships with rent boys.