1987 жылғы британдық таблоид газеті: «The News on Sunday» тарихы

1987 British tabloid newspaper

The News on Sunday was a left wing British tabloid newspaper. It was launched in April 1987. Publication ceased seven months later, in November 1987.

The founders of the paper were former members of the left wing group Big Flame. They decided that a left wing mass circulation tabloid Sunday newspaper was possible and endeavoured to start one. The idea of the paper was originally thought up by Benjamin Lowe. The leaders were John Pilger as editor in chief and Alan Hayling, but Pilger left before the newspaper was launched. The decision to base its headquarters in Manchester was criticised as it was away from the centre of national political activity. The paper gave a controlling interest to a collective of workers and its share issue raised £6.5 million from trade unions and Labour local authority pension funds. Keith Sutton was appointed editor. One founder was Chris Bott, a member of the Stoke Newington Eight who stood trial in the prosecution of The Angry Brigade. 4 of the 8 defendants, including Bott, were acquitted. Bott became the marketing manager for the newspaper

The advertisement campaign for the paper was carried out by BBH (Bartle, Bogle & Hegarty), who came up with the slogan "No tits but a lot of balls", in an attempt to distance the paper from those with images of topless women, and emphasise an overt political agenda not usually associated with tabloids. The slogan offended the feminists working on the paper and was subsequently dropped, though an element of the idea survived for the TV advert. The slogan used was "The paper that bites back". The newspaper's attitude to news values, and the inexperience of its staff, was illustrated on the front page of its first edition on 26 April. The lead story was about a boy in Brazil who had to sell one of his kidneys to pay for medical care. Although most agreed The first issue sold 500,000 and by its eighth issue circulation had gone down to 200,000. The failure of the paper is attributed to inexperienced staff,

Two ex employees, Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie, wrote a "withering" account of its demise called Disaster!.

The newspaper was socialist in tone and internationalist in outlook. It supported the principle of self determination for all nations and regarded British society as 'based on the unequal ownership of wealth, prosperity and power'. It also believed that the root cause of the Troubles in Northern Ireland was the 'British presence in that country'. It supported trade unions when they went on strike and was against the 'imposition of suffering on animals'.