SUN on Sunday: RUERT MURDOCH "discovers" "decency" in journalism! A scoop, an exclusive and a shocker!

0945 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
26 February 2012

Editor Muhammad Haque

RUERT MURDOCH "discovers" "decency" in journalism! A scoop, an exclusive and a shocker!

The claim is carried in the piece we publish below from the London website Metro.co.uk.

We make the first comment that this claim by Murdoch albeit done in the name of the ‘SUN on Sunday’ is ridiculous and offensive and totally untenable.

The following item together with the image/s has been published here from the website:

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/891415-the-suns-new-sunday-edition-promises-decency-from-its-reporters

The METRO.CO.UK website had just published the item on their website at appx 0915 GMT, just 25 minutes ago.

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The Sun's new Sunday edition promises 'decency' from its reporters

The Sun's new Sunday edition has pledged that its journalists will 'abide by the values of decency', after the News of the World was brought down by the phone hacking scandal.

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch personally oversaw production of the launch edition and the paper did not shy away from the controversy the company has been embroiled in over the past year.

The Sun's first Sunday edition was published today (PA)

In an editorial titled 'A new Sun rises today', it acknowledged the closure of the media giant's previous Sunday tabloid had been a 'sobering experience'.

It said the Sun's reporters were expected to abide by both News Corporation's standards for business conduct and the Press Complaints Commission's editors code.

'We will hold our journalists to the standards we expect of them. After all a newspaper which holds the powerful to account must do the same with itself,' the editorial continued.

'You will be able to trust our journalists to abide by the values of decency as they gather news.'

The paper itself stuck closely to the formula that has made the weekday Sun such a success.

Its front page featured an exclusive interview with Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden about the traumatic birth of her daughter Hollie, accompanied by the headline 'My Heart Stopped For 40 Seconds'.

There are also columns by the likes of Katie Price, Toby Young, Nancy Dell'Olio and Heston Blumenthal, together with a non-revealing topless photo of X Factor judge Kelly Rowland on Page 3.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/891415-the-suns-new-sunday-edition-promises-decency-from-its-reporters#ixzz1nTmEIqlS