Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
The Sun News-Pictorial history in Melbourne, to form the "Herald-Sun". The Sun News-Pictorial The Sun News-Pictorial, also known as "The Sun", was a morning daily tabloid newspaper published in Melbourne, from 1922 until its merger in 1990 with "The Herald" to form the "Herald-Sun". "The Sun News-Pictorial" was part of The Herald and Weekly Times stable of Melbourne newspapers. For more than fifty years it was the newspaper with the largest circulation in Australia. Along with its extensive coverage of Australian Rules football (for example, it was responsible for the competition that produced the original VFL/AFL team songs) "The Sun News-Pictorial" distinguished itself