One of the joys of the so-called New Media – Facebook and Twitter and the rest – is the sheer speed of it.
I used to pride myself on how fast newspapers could be when they really tried….
But they’re rubbish in the speed stakes – compared to what New Media is now doing every minute of [...]

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KK: I’M NO BEAST!
BYE BYE MR FAT GUY!
NOW NONHLE WANTS
TO KILL ME!

Amazing but true: Here in TabloidLand there’s a definite confusion between the world in which we dwell and the world presented on the flickering silver screen.
Have a look at last weekend’s Sunday Sun.
It’s a cry from the heart of KK, a villain from the [...]

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It’s not often that all of us – broadsheets and tabloids – find ourselves putting the same kind of stuff on the front pages. (see picture >>)
And it’s not often that we – Daily Sun, that is – carry the same story on different days as the page one lead…
But this petrol strike is one [...]

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Fridays are end-of-the-week days of course.
They’ve also now become launch days for our almost-legendary competitions, Stic-a-Pic.
I say “legendary” because of the huge numbers of entries they have generated over the years – millions, many millions – and the numbers of papers they have helped sell.
All this has been possible because Stic-a-Pic promotions tick just about [...]

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There’s always something different in Daily Sun – the nation’s favourite daily.
On Tuesday this week we featured the remarkable story of vutha.
Vutha (as if you didn’t know!) is a fire which leaps like a grasshopper from target to target.
It’s sent by those who wish evil to befall their enemies.
Our Tuesday story told of a family [...]

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