By Kat Stoeffel 2/20/12 9:30am

The Best Defense

Hi, Rupert

Rupert Murdoch Will Personally Oversee The Sun on Sunday in London

The Sun on Sunday launches next week, making Rupert Murdoch’s first UK newspaper available seven days a week, even as its masthead is plagued by arrests and allegations of bribery. Here is a vintage pic of Mr. Murdoch released by The Sun for the occasion.

In a memo obtained by the Guardian, the News Corp. boss pledged his “unwavering support” to the new publication, which is staffed at least in part by employees of the shuttered News of the World.

Memo below, emphasis ours. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 12/29/10 9:40pm

Oops

UK’s Sun Misreports Al-Qaeda Terrorism

On December 9 The Sun falsely reported that Al-Qaeda had targeted the Manchester set of British soap opera Coronation Street, where they were filming a live episode, says The Guardian.

The front page headline was “AL-QAEDA CORRIE THREAT” and the article said that police had thrown a “ring of steel” around the set after Read More

By Zeke Turner 10/13/10 12:50am

A New Gossip Girl at the Post

Last Wednesday night, Page Six reporter Emily Smith was at the club Provocateur in the meatpacking district at a party for the season finale of The Spin Crowd, an E! network reality show produced by Kim Kardashian.

Ms. Kardashian came and left quickly, and Ms. Smith talked briefly with the club’s owner about its alleged Read More