News of the World
Sunday sister of The Sun, since Rupert Murdoch acquired the latter in 1969. It’s by far the older of the two papers, starting publication in 1843 priced at just 3d (1.125p in today’s money, without of course taking inflation into account).
From the outset it was aimed at the working class readership, and pitched its news coverage accordingly – a collection of sensational news pruriently presented, about crime, scandal and sex. Also known as “News Of The Screws”, “Screws Of The World” or – at least in earlier times – the “Whore’s Gazette”.
What little hard news there is is presented from a right-wing point of view.
It’s also aggressively populist; one of its most controversial yet popular campaigns of recent years has been its demand that the public should have access to the Sex Offenders Register. Following its initial “name and shame” campaign, mobs hounded a number of innocent people in the belief that they were paedophiles.
There’s a separate edition for Scotland, the Scottish News of the World.
| Website: | http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/ |
| Address: | News of the World 1 Virginia Street Wapping LONDON E98 1XY |
| Tel: | 020 7782 1001 |
| Fax: | 020 7488 4433 |
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