Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper

Peter Chippindale, Chris Horrie

Faber & Faber, Limited, 2013 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 522 pages

This edition shows how the vast profits the Sun produces for Rupert Murdoch have been made by rewriting the rules of tabloid journalism to a formula of sex, sensationalism and trivia.

About the author

Peter Chippindale was born in northern India on July 4, 1945. He received a history degree at Reading and eventually became a journalist. He worked at the Guardian for several years. He wrote or co-wrote numerous non-fiction books including Juntas United, The Thorpe Committal, Disaster!, Stick It Up Your Punter!, Dished!, and Life As Sutch. He also wrote the novel Mink! He died of kidney failure on August 10, 2014 at the age of 69.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper; Faber Finds
• Authors: Peter Chippindale, Chris Horrie
• Contributor: Chris Horrie
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, Limited, 2013
• ISBN: 0571299709, 9780571299706
• Length: 522 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism; Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishers & Publishing Industry; Social Science / Media Studies