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Sun on Sunday will return to traditional journalistic values of making stuff up

it's all going on in your new transpurrant bun Announcing the first publication of the Sun on Sunday, News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has pledged that the paper will be produced with the ‘highest possible standards’ and will not repeat the mistakes of its predecessor, instead seeing a return to the tabloid tradition of ‘completely making stuff up’.

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Posted: Feb 20th, 2013
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Rupert Murdoch launches subscription-only dreams app, The Nightly

Dream+ system will pause everything if you need to get up for a wee‘Premier league’ dreams include running through treacle as you try to flee from a sinister, all-powerful media presence

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Posted: Feb 7th, 2013
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Rebekah Brooks to pay full costs of Leveson inquiry out of £10.8m payoff

because she's worth itFormer News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has decided as a gesture of goodwill to pay for the entire costs of the inquiry into Culture, Practice and Ethics of the press led by Lord Leveson out of her £10.8million severance package from News International.

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Posted: Dec 13th, 2012
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News of the World latest: Mystic Meg hacked Sagittarians’ voicemails

The newspaper insists that the hacking which produced uncannily personalised horoscopes was limited to ‘one rogue fortune teller’.

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Posted: Nov 30th, 2012
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Rupert Murdoch emerges as preferred bidder for lucrative NHS contracts

texting the PM about this right nowRupert Murdoch has emerged as the leading candidate to secure lucrative contracts providing services to the National Health Service. The surprise announcement followed the recent restructuring of the coalition cabinet, with industry observers using their enormous breadth of knowledge on the subject, a degree of intuition, and the fact that Jeremy Hunt’s now in charge of Health to proclaim the move ‘a masterstroke’, ‘timely’, ‘shrewd business’ and ‘gawd ‘elp us all’.

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Posted: Sep 4th, 2012
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