A missed promotional opportunity

Posted by Gary
December 19, 2006

The Sun’s been uncharacteristically reticent in its coverage of the Suffolk murder arrest: while describing the arrested man’s internet profile and quoting liberally from it, The Sun neglected to mention that the “social networking site” in question was MySpace.

What, I wonder, would prevent The Sun (prop. R Murdoch) from naming MySpace (prop. R Murdoch)?

Journalism, Media, Stuff and nonsense

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Comment by Ronnie on December 19, 2006 @ 4:56 pm

I bet he doesn’t even care: he’s (presumably) an intelligent man; he’ll know that the myspace link will be everywhere.

As with all these things, it’s almost certainly a middle-management decision.

Comment by Gary on December 20, 2006 @ 8:46 am

I was serious when I said “uncharacteristically” - the Sun rarely misses an opportunity to plug Fox things, no matter what the context - serial killer gives interview to Sky News, hurrah, that sort of thing.

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