The New York Sun Sets
CLIVE Davis says so long to the New York Sun:
The New York Sun, conservative rival to the Old Gray Lady, is closing down after six years of trying to beat the odds. Urging Dick Cheney to run for president was little short of unhinged, and the coverage of Europe often had a whiff of Islamophobia about it, but the paper did publish some quality pieces too.
A newspaper dies, and in small room in London a web publisher smiles…
September 30th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Though it is kind of ironic that the Sun fell victim to the forces it had supported so enthusiastically; those of the market…
September 30th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
sort of unhoist by its own petard?
September 30th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Those who live by the sword; Rupert Murdoch’s Sky is churning out ’sub prime mortgages for dummies’ in the hope that the loyal Sky readership never twigs that the subprime mortgages are the very small tip of a very large iceberg…