The practicality of seizing a newspaper

[Angry Young Man]

Would it be practical to seize a widely-read red-top tabloid without the seizure being reported. Say we took the Sun - Britain's most widely-read paper, famed for its far-right tendency and tits - we could almost instantly get massive influence.

[Vendetta]

I don't think you'd really be able to do that without getting noticed.

[scarletghoul]

What a great idea. I can't think how it could be done, but it is a good idea.

An illegal seizure (lol!) would be very difficult, but its probably possible to get some influence or infiltrate it or buy it if you have much money.

argh another pointless post!

[Angry Young Man]

Yea that's why I gave it the title 'the practicalities'. I wonder if there is a good way to do it.

[Vendetta]

Yea that's why I gave it the title 'the practicalities'. I wonder if there is a good way to do it.

Unseen/unnoticed by the general public? I'd doubt it.

[Glorious Union]

No, I don't think it would be possible. An illegal seizing would mean that you never get your first publication out before they arest you, and a legal seizure would take far too long plus it is unlikely to happen in the first place.

Now a television station would be a good thing to seize, even illegally. Because you can get the message out immediately to everybody at the same time.

[Invincible Summer]

No, I don't think it would be possible. An illegal seizing would mean that you never get your first publication out before they arest you, and a legal seizure would take far too long plus it is unlikely to happen in the first place.

Now a television station would be a good thing to seize, even illegally. Because you can get the message out immediately to everybody at the same time.

Like so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DRAD-j8ObI

[Pogue]

Internet sites would be better. More people gon on BBC.co.uk than read one specific paper.

It'd be doable if you had the workers in the printing/editing buildings on your side. Certainly, in a revolutionary situation we could do this.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

It'd be doable if you had the workers in the printing/editing buildings on your side. Certainly, in a revolutionary situation we could do this.

This thread reminds me off that tintin comic

http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/images/break0075.jpg
http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/images/break0076.jpg

[Pogue]

This thread reminds me off that tintin comic

http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/images/break0075.jpg
http://tintinrevolution.free.fr/images/break0076.jpg

I was going to say so myself.

[Q]

I was going to say so myself.

As would I...

We can seize the bourgeois press, as a mass collective force. United, they can never break us, "legality" becomes irrelevant.

[benhur]

Seizing newspaper is revolutionary. I do it every morning after a cup of coffee.;)

[Angry Young Man]

Prior to Thatcher coming along, weren't the Printers' Union quite militant? Definitely win the support of the printers. And 10m people read the Sun. The big problem, as has been highlighted, is the time lapse between seizure and the first issue. It'd have to be armed. Would they call in the army?

[Cohacq]

Don't know how it'd be in britain, but I doupt they'd call in the army here in sweden, the politicans are still scared of another Ådalen, even though that was almost 80 years ago.