Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Rise and Fall of the Sun - Hardcover

Chippindale, Peter; Horrie, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0434126241 ISBN 13: 9780434126248

Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

Shows how the vast profits the "Sun" produces for News International have been made by rewriting the rules of tabloid journalism to a formula of sex, sensationalism and trivia.

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About the Author

Peter Chippindale was born in 1945. He began writing seriously as a front page investigative journalist on the Guardian. He then went on to make documentaries for London Weekend Television before leaving to concentrate on his writing. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen non-fiction books, including the critically acclaimed trilogy on the media industry - Disaster!, Dished! and Stick It Up Your Punter! - the latter recently republished. Laptop of the Gods is Peter's second work of fiction following Mink. He has three young children and lives with his wife Susie near the sea in Cornwall. Chris Horrie is the author of six successful books, including the bestselling STICK IT UP YOUR PUNTER! and LIVE TV. He is a former national newspaper and magazine journalist and editor, TV producer, lecturer and academic.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0434126241
• ISBN 13: 9780434126248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384