Talk:Sun (supermarket tabloid)

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How much history for this paper is appropriate for this article? I could easily discuss the corporate history of the tabloid world (in general terms, at least), but I'm not sure how appropriate any of that is for a general audience (or how interesting it'd be for anyone).

Actually, that would be very interesting. This article is lacking background. When was the sun founded? why? How many copies a year? Relevant scandals? Who owns the Sun? .etc .etc


 * Here's a Harper's Article on the 1992 defamation case over the "100-year-old mail carrier pregnant with love child!" headline. It's currently subscriber-only, but must exist on the web in a linkable-to format somewhere, mustn't it? Anyone know where?? --AMI

Why did it cease publication???
Why did the Sun cease publication? Low circulation/sales? If so, why did sales decline?


 * Are you looking for secondary sources on this? I doubt there are any. From the perspective of one in the newsroom during the final years, it was almost certainly a combination of lack of decent racking, a corporate aversion to risk in subject matter (so no experiments to try to appeal to new readership - recycled covers got stale), and, most of all, a weird inability to use the internet for promoting the publication. Sun never had a website, and until Bat Boy LLC bought the Weekly World News brand, the WWN only had a web presence in the scanned archives on Google Books. The bigger papers had websites - Enquirer and Globe. The irony there is that the stuff in Sun and WWN - the "wacky" tabs - was much more like the early internet: conspiracy theories, urban legends, and oddball stories about hard to believe (yet mmmmaybe true) events. Anyway, that's my recollection. The closest you'd find to a secondary source on this might be Jim Hogshire's books, but he was out of the tabloid game long before the wacky tabs tanked. - grant 21:03, 13 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Grantb (talk • contribs)

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