Rupert Murdoch-Backed Paper Huge Success According to Rupert Murdoch

(Via BBC)

For over 40 years, The Sun, the leading tabloid in London that is owned by News Corp., was a Friday through Saturday publication. But yesterday, under the watchful eye of Rupert Murdoch himself, the Sun debuted a Sunday edition. When Murdoch announced the Sunday edition, the New York Times reports that he emailed Sun staffers, “Having a winning paper is the best answer to our critics.”

With such high stakes, it seems only right that — according to Murdoch — the Sunday edition did fantastic.

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