Originally Posted by marko (Post 35390162)

I give up, mate. I really do. For something closer to the truth, see martyH's posts. As I originally said, staff piled in at a moment's notice to produce the first new paper. It was on a day they were supposed to be off, so plans were cancelled, arrangements trashed, and all those who could practically come in made themselves available. I'm not saying plans for the paper weren't made in advance - it's a reasonable assumption that they were. But when the starting gun was fired it came as a genuine surprise to most, if not all, and staff were required instantly to rally round, which they did. It really shouldn't be that hard to understand, Peter, but you're making extremely heavy weather of it. Anyway, no point falling out - life's too short! :)

Originally Posted by Peter_ (Post 35390273)

OK I believe you because no newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch has ever told lies or hacked into voicemail belonging to a dead child giving the family false hope, so by virtue of those facts I also believe that the Sunday **** was put together at a moments notice purely on a whim and a wing and a prayer, also all that advertising space was never there because no one knew it existed.

Originally Posted by paulsouth (Post 35390270)

i did buy it on sunday..

Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu (Post 35390272)

Its a Tory paper, and l hate anything associated with the Tories.

Originally Posted by paulsouth (Post 35390270)

i did buy it on sunday..

Originally Posted by martyh (Post 35390276)

advertising space can be bought and sold at a moments notice ,a few phone calls/emails to existing advertisers and they will be falling over themselves to fill the pages with their adverts ,especially a paper as popular as the sun

Originally Posted by Peter_ (Post 35390291)

If you also want to believe it was also a miracle on fleet street feel free to believe the hype.

Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35390290)

l would not buy it even if it was offered to me for nothing.

Originally Posted by Tim Deegan (Post 35390279)

And what was your opinion?

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35390350)

Not good, Jordan the coloumist, paying tribute to Marie Colvin, a woman she could identify with (to be fair I think that was a typo, I think she meant to say she could identify her as a woman), other highlights included a Bishop preaching forgiveness, new starts and thanking God (Rupert) for seven days of The Sun.

Glad a didn't pay for it but will begrudge spending a quid on it when it's my turn, even the football coverage didn't do much for me and what a great first front page, Amanda Holden's baby, hardly a current news story, had they left it much longer the baby would've been walking.

Originally Posted by Tim Deegan (Post 35390352)

Well did you expect any better when they couldn't fill it with the usual intrusive scandals??

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 35390324)

Peter, if you think the volume of advertising sales calls required to fill a Sunday paper could have begun at any time significantly in advance of the launch date being announced, and gone both unnoticed and unreported by NI's competitors (some of whom hate that organisation even more than you, which has got to be saying something), then you really are living in a fantasy.

Originally Posted by TheDaddy (Post 35390350)

Not good, Jordan the coloumist, paying tribute to Marie Colvin, a woman she could identify with (to be fair I think that was a typo, I think she meant to say she could identify her as a woman)
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Originally Posted by Peter_ (Post 35390387)

No anyone thinking that the planning was only started a week before printing is living in a fantasy.

Originally Posted by Damien (Post 35390404)

Please tell me you don't mean Jordan, aka the model. They cannot have thought that Jordan, the model, is the correct person to pay tribute to a war correspondent. Are you sure you don't mean a fellow war reporter who is based in Jordan?