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Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the "Sun" Newspaper (Pocket books) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Peter Chippindale, Chris Horrie
Publisher: Pocket Books
Category: Book
List Price: £8.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 31919
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Pages: 528
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0671017829
EAN: 9780671017828
ASIN: 0671017829
Publication Date: January 4, 1999
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The 1980s was the best of times and the worst of times for the British tabloid press. Locked in a vicious war for readers it was a time when the phrase "anything goes" never seemed so apt. Privacy was invaded, stories made up and toes well and truly trodden on as Fleet Street's finest embarked on a period which, arguably, saw some of the best and worst reporting in the history of British journalism. And the paper that emerged from the contest with its head and shoulders way above the rest was the Sun. In Stick It Up Your Punter!, ex-national newspapermen Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie take a behind the scenes look at the operations of the Sun and it's lewd, crude and brilliant editor Kelvin McKenzie. In the main, it's a tale of high farce as Chippindale and Horrie explain the truth behind stories including the rescue of a death-bound donkey from Spain and the infamous "Gotcha!" and "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" headlines. This humour is tempered, however, by more serious stories including the libel actions of Elton John and Jeffrey Archer against the paper. For anyone interested in the social history of Britain and the rise and fall of tabloid journalism this book is completely unsurpassed in it's depth and coverage. For those seeking light entertainment and Carry On style humour, there's plenty here to keep you amused. Stick It Up Your Punter is the finest book on British tabloid journalism ever written.
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Hilarious, entertaining and revealing May 5, 2008
John Dwice (Cheltenham, U.K)
"Stick It Up Your Punter" tells the story of the Sun Newspaper through its ups and downs mainly in the 80's.
After the first chapter I found this book impossible to put down. What Chippendale and Horrie do is provide a fascinating incite into the way the past editors of the Sun newspaper worked. In partictular Kelvin Mackenzie, the sparkling personality who helped shape the Sun into what it is now.
Its entertaining to see the contrast between the first two editors of the paper; the very professional Sir "Larry Lamb" and the loud bombastic Mackenzie. The latter offering colleagues expensive whiskey when they visited the editors office and the former offering lager straight out of the can.
Along with the narritave of how the Sun office ticked goes endless laugh out loud stories and cracking headlines thought up by sometimes unlikely people in unique amusing situations.
In short if you are interested in journalism or the media I recommend this book. If not then it is still well worth a read for its very entertaning stories.
Murdoch and Mackenzie-The Great and Small Satan March 2, 2007
Franz Bieberkopf (Liverpool,GB)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found a copy of this in a second hand bookshop a few months ago,and I highly recommend it to anyone.It is hilarious and terrifying at the same time-how someone as monstrous as Kelvin Makenzie ever got to the top of the greasy pole at "The Scum",his worship of Thatcher,his utter hatred of gays,blacks,peace campaigners,feminists,striking workers and(most notoriously)of 96 dead football fans.He is a cartoon caricature of the loony right made flesh.
The authors interviewed widely within current and ex-employees of "The Scum",noting in passing that current News International employees were committing a sackable offence by talking to them.Their accounts are funny,but their fear and loathing of Mackenzie comes through loud and clear,especially as the story moves from the mid to the late 1980s.
Murdoch is a shadowy figure in the background of most of this book,but he shines out in the latter chapters,where it is explained that "The Scum" was a cash cow being milked to pay for Murdoch's international TV empire.The stories of the Sky promo drivel "Scum" journalists had to try and palm off as real news is eye-opening.
Whether deliberately or unconciously,the Hillsborough catastrophe of April 1989 and it's aftermath,which,thanks to Mackenzie,led to the biggest financial disaster ever suffered by a British newspaper(still ongoing in 2007)is the climax of the book.Their description of Mackenzie musing over whether to splash with "YOU SCUM" or "THE TRUTH" a few days after the disaster is horrifying.The reactions of other journalists to the infamous headline-basically,disassociate yourself from it and keep as far away from Mackenzie as possible-is well depicted,as is the boycott of "The Scum" initiated by outraged scousers then,and still going strong in Liverpool as I write.
The hardest thing to do when you read SIUYJ is to suspend your natural skepticism and accept that the authors didn't make this up,it all really happened.Read it in wonder.
Frogs hopped in for Hoddle August 22, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Full of juicy nuggets and wacky tales about the rise of the Sun to be be Britain's top-selling daily newspaper. FROGS HOP IN FOR HODDLE was my favourite headline. Maybe reading this very entertaining book would help those who don't like the Sun's content to appreciate the professionalism, creativity and hard work that went into making the paper what was/is. Chippindale and Horrie also tell of a lot of seat-of-pants instinct (and not just Kelvin McKenzie's) that makes it all seem, it retrospect, something of a Golden Age.
 Excellent indictment of how full of rubbish The Sun is. May 16, 2000
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
From The Sun's fictitious "Straight sex cannot give you AIDS" splash, through their fictitious "Exterminate all gay people" 'quote' to their promotion of "Hop Off You Frogs" badges, this detailed book exposes it all. Excellent (if sometimes upsetting and angering) stuff.
Interesting and funny, well worth reading May 31, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book really does deserve a five-star rating. It's well written, and recounts lots of interesting and amusing stories. Reading this book is not a chore, it almost reads itself. Definitely worth getting.
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