Will you buy The Sun on Sunday?

[Julian]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

SOS will be 50p, Sun on Saturday also dropped to 50p

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Partially achieved by screwing over retailers with a reduced margin.

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by Julian

Partially achieved by screwing over retailers with a reduced margin.

Retailers can refuse to stock it if they are concerned about the margin. They won't do that though as it gets people into their stores who will probably buy some other tat at over inflated high-margin price.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Hmm, didn't they use the headline "It was the sun which won it"?

Oh wait, sorry, it was "It's The Sun Wot Won It"

Says it all really, piece of trash paper.

What skills and qualifications do you need to work for The Sun and The Sun on Sunday?

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Originally Posted by Julian

Partially achieved by screwing over retailers with a reduced margin.

What was price beforehand?

[Tim Deegan]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

What skills and qualifications do you need to work for The Sun and The Sun on Sunday?

Are you thinking of applying for a job?

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

Are you thinking of applying for a job?

No, I was just wondering!

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

No, I was just wondering!

Well, ignoring the sneering nature of that posting:

Jounalism qualifications

Despite it's perceived nature I would guess that the Sun, Times etc would ask the same levels of qualifications as any other newspaper or media outlet.

An NVQ in baggage handling is not sufficient.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Well, ignoring the sneering nature of that posting:

Jounalism qualifications

Despite it's perceived nature I would guess that the Sun, Times etc would ask the same levels of qualifications as any other newspaper or media outlet.

An NVQ in baggage handling is not sufficient.

I thought all the skills you needed is to be good at writing rubbish and knowing how to hack into phones and computers!

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by AdamD

Hmm, didn't they use the headline "It was the sun which won it"?

Oh wait, sorry, it was "It's The Sun Wot Won It"

Says it all really, piece of trash paper.

Yes and hardly anyone bought that copy of the paper, Rupert would love it if his papers really could control us but he was slapped down that day by us and has since deftly gone with public opinion rather than try and make public opinion, sure he can make life hard for government but they more than anyone needed to wake up and realise it was the people not some media mogal that need to be kept happy.

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Originally Posted by Alan Fry

What skills and qualifications do you need to work for The Sun and The Sun on Sunday?

Same as most jurno's today I'd imagine, the ability to use Google...

[richard1960]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Yes and hardly anyone bought that copy of the paper, Rupert would love it if his papers really could control us but he was slapped down that day by us and has since deftly gone with public opinion rather than try and make public opinion, sure he can make life hard for government but they more than anyone needed to wake up and realise it was the people not some media mogal that need to be kept happy.

Yep i agree though i have read that when Rupert Murdoch wanted to get Sky TV up and going the then government led by Margeret Thatcher inserted a clause in the privatisation of BT bill that prevented BT from setting up a TV serivce for many years,so giving leg up to Mr Murdochs plans for Sky tv.

The rest as they say is history the govenment got favourable press and Mr Murdoch got Sky up and running,for him keeping close to those in power paid dividends in the past.

Not so sure that is the case now with the phone hacking scandal.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by richard1960

Yep i agree though i have read that when Rupert wanted to get Sky TV up and going the then govenment led by Margeret Thatcher inserted a clause in the privatisation of BT bill that p revented them from setting up a TV serivce for many years,so gioving leg up to Mr Murdochs plans for Sky tv.

The rest as they say is history the govenment got favourable press and Mr Murdoch got Sky up and running,for him keeping close to those in power paid dividends in the past.

Not so sure that is the case now with the phone hacking scandal.

I thought the clause was to protect cable companies (even thought BT ran a cable network until the late 1990s)

[richard1960]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

I thought the clause was to protect cable companies (even thought BT ran a cable network until the late 1990s)

The clause was more benefical to Rupert Murdoch as the cable companies were going to be deep in debt from getting the infrastructure up and running.

The only competition he might have got in the early days was from BT who would have had the cash,but were prevented from operating a TV service.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by richard1960

The clause was more benefical to Rupert Murdoch as the cable companies were deep in debt from getting the infrastructure up and running.

The only competition he might have got in the early days was from BT who would have had the cash,but were prevented from operating a TV service.

Well they did operate a cable TV service in Milton Keynes and Wesmister!

[richard1960]

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

Well they did operate a cable TV service in Milton Keynes and Wesmister!

They did but to all intents and prurposes Alan that is not really a great threat to Sky is it and was only a very localised service.

[Julian]

Originally Posted by gazzae

Retailers can refuse to stock it if they are concerned about the margin.

They are already planning that and do with other titles. Also no involvement in promotions etc.

Originally Posted by gazzae

They won't do that though as it gets people into their stores who will probably buy some other tat at over inflated high-margin price.

Blimey, you need to try shopping around a bit.

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by richard1960

They did but to all intents and prurposes Alan that is not really a great threat to Sky is it and was only a very localised service.

I know and they ended up selling it to NTL (but kept the network itself) in the late 1990s