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[SIZE=-1]Christian Science Monitor[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Forget well-respected names like The Independent, Guardian, or The Times. News of the World, with its weekly offering of showbiz gossip, topless models, and sport draws some 3 million readers, making it the most widely read Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Its calling card has been the type of gotcha exclusives that the paper broke Sunday by publishing a photograph of US Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps smoking a marijuana water pipe at a student party.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation, its reporters regularly hand over large sums of money to secure the right scoop be it embarrassing pictures or titillating kiss and tell interviews with jilted lovers - and the Phelps picture is likely to have been worth tens of thousands of dollars if money changed hands, media watchers say. The paper proudly proclaims its desire to pay for such items, with a prominent tab on its homepage that offers BIG money for BIG exclusives.[/SIZE]
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http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/02/butterflying-phelps-is-just-latest-celebrity-scalp-for-news-of-the-world/&cid=0&ei=3gWHScuaA8jcmQe0u7SACQ&usg=AFQjCNFR12FQ4TfoFuZ-UJn3AtMI5y4PxQ
[SIZE=-1]Forget well-respected names like The Independent, Guardian, or The Times. News of the World, with its weekly offering of showbiz gossip, topless models, and sport draws some 3 million readers, making it the most widely read Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Its calling card has been the type of gotcha exclusives that the paper broke Sunday by publishing a photograph of US Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps smoking a marijuana water pipe at a student party.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation, its reporters regularly hand over large sums of money to secure the right scoop be it embarrassing pictures or titillating kiss and tell interviews with jilted lovers - and the Phelps picture is likely to have been worth tens of thousands of dollars if money changed hands, media watchers say. The paper proudly proclaims its desire to pay for such items, with a prominent tab on its homepage that offers BIG money for BIG exclusives.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/02/02/butterflying-phelps-is-just-latest-celebrity-scalp-for-news-of-the-world/&cid=0&ei=3gWHScuaA8jcmQe0u7SACQ&usg=AFQjCNFR12FQ4TfoFuZ-UJn3AtMI5y4PxQ
