At the end of yesterday's R4 media Show [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012t97p] they mentioned "Project X, Project Y" - looking into ways ahead for NI in the UK, what to do with the various titles and how to merge things.
I found this blog post (know nothing about the author) which summarises it:
"Inside News International there are two secret projects: Project X, cut costs by 50%. Project Y, move to a seven-day-a-week newspaper. A couple of days before James Murdoch with Rebekah Wade in tow, accompanied by security guards, told staff at the News of the World it was being closed, two web addresses were registered for The Sun on Sunday. It is goodbye News of the World, hello Sun on Sunday."
So - before you celebrate the death of the awful NOTW
At the end of yesterday's BBC R4 Media Show special on the #NotW [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b012t97p] they mentioned "Project X, Project Y" - looking into ways ahead for NI in the UK, what to do with the various titles and how to merge things.
I found this blog post (know nothing about the author or his connections) which summarises it:
"Inside News International there are two secret projects: Project X, cut costs by 50%. Project Y, move to a seven-day-a-week newspaper. A couple of days before James Murdoch with Rebekah Wade in tow, accompanied by security guards, told staff at the News of the World it was being closed, two web addresses were registered for The Sun on Sunday. It is goodbye News of the World, hello Sun on Sunday."
http://keithpp.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/good-riddance-news-of-the-world/
If true - why isn't this being discussed more in the press?
So - before we celebrate the death of the awful NOTW this might actually just be them bringing forward an existing plan.
There's a great rant about the topic from John Finnemore on yesterdays's Now Show - essentially saying we need to keep up the outrage & protest levels in order to show NI and management as not "fit and proper persons" in the SKY takeover. Makes a good point.
There's a great rant about the topic from John Finnemore on yesterdays's Now Show - essentially saying we need to keep up the outrage & protest levels in order to show NI and management as not "fit and proper persons" in the SKY takeover. Makes a good point.
BBC R4 Now Show S34 Ep5: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b012942n
