Rupert Murdoch assures Sun staffers he's committed to their tabloid
Rupert Murdoch assures Sun staffers he's committed to their tabloid February 17, 2012 | 8:55 am 2 0 REPORTING FROM LONDON -- Amid an incipient staff revolt, media mogul Rupert Murdoch told journalists at the Sun on Friday that he remained committed to the racy tabloid and that a brand-new Sunday edition would launch "very soon," thus assuring Britons of seven-day-a-week access to celebrity gossip, snarky editorials and photos of women's breasts. The announcement that Murdoch would be further contributing to the cultural life of Britain was greeted with relief and elation inside the Sun newsroom, where journalists had begun lashing out in recent days at his stewardship of News Corp., which owns the Sun and the Times of London, among other British titles. The tabloid's staff has been angered...