The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 "Classic" Sun Front Pages http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/classic-sun-front-pages http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/classic-sun-front-pages#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:45:35 +0000 Alex Balk http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/classic-sun-front-pages He didn't actually, but it made for a good story
The Sun is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Rupert Murdoch's tabloidization of the paper with a collection of some of its "classic front pages", plus endorsements from such notable figures as Margaret Thatcher's ghostwriter and Dizzee Rascal. (This also serves as an answer to the question "Whatever happened to Dizzee Rascal?" He is doing endorsements for the Sun.) Anyway, this classic is probably the best of the genre. It doesn't even matter if you know who Freddie Starr is or what the story wasn't: It is the platonic ideal of a Murdoch paper front page.

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The Sun is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Rupert Murdoch's tabloidization of the paper with a collection of some of its "classic front pages", plus endorsements from such notable figures as Margaret Thatcher's ghostwriter and Dizzee Rascal. (This also serves as an answer to the question "Whatever happened to Dizzee Rascal?" He is doing endorsements for the Sun.) Anyway, this classic is probably the best of the genre. It doesn't even matter if you know who Freddie Starr is or what the story wasn't: It is the platonic ideal of a Murdoch paper front page.

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