Minimum Age to Buy The Sun

chaffordred

libitina wrote:

What lies?

This should explain why I would never buy the S*N.

The Sun newspaper

On the Tuesday following the disaster (disaster: An act that has disastrous consequences) , Kelvin MacKenzie (Kelvin MacKenzie: kelvin mackenzie (born october 22, 1946) is a media figure in the united kingdom....
[follow hyperlink for more...]) , then editor of The Sun (The Sun: the sun, a tabloid daily newspaper published in the united kingdom, has the highest...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) , a British tabloid (tabloid: Newspaper with half-size pages) newspaper (newspaper: A daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements) owned by Rupert Murdoch (Rupert Murdoch: United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931)) , used the front page headline 'THE TRUTH', with three sub-headlines: 'Some fans picked pockets of victims'; 'Some fans urinated on the brave cops'; 'Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life'.

The story accompanying these headlines claimed that 'drunken Liverpool fans viciously attacked rescue workers as they tried to revive victims' and 'police officers, firemen and ambulance crew were punched, kicked and urinated upon'. A quote, attributed to an unnamed policeman, claimed that a dead girl had been abused and that Liverpool fans 'were openly urinating on us and the bodies of the dead'.

In their history of The Sun, Peter Chippendale and Chris Horrie wrote:

'As MacKenzie's layout was seen by more and more people, a collective shudder ran through the office [but] MacKenzie's dominance was so total there was nobody left in the organisation who could rein him in except Murdoch. [Everyone] seemed paralysed, "looking like rabbits in the headlights", as one hack described them. The error staring them in the face was too glaring. It obviously wasn't a silly mistake; nor was it a simple oversight. Nobody really had any comment on it—they just took one look and went away shaking their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a "classic smear".'



Lord Justice Taylor's official inquiry into the disaster disparaged The Sun's story and was unequivocal as to the disaster's cause:

'The real cause of the Hillsborough disaster [was] overcrowding, the main reason for the disaster was the failure of police control.'



Following The Sun's report, the newspaper was boycotted by most newsagents in Liverpool (Liverpool: A large city in northwestern England; its port is the country's major outlet for industrial exports) , with many refusing to stock the tabloid and large numbers of readers cancelling orders and even refusing to buy from shops which did stock the newspaper.

MacKenzie explained his reporting in 1993. Talking to a House of Commons (House of Commons: The lower house of the British parliament) National Heritage Select Committee (Select Committee: A parliamentary committee appointed for some special purpose) he said "I regret Hillsborough. It was a fundamental mistake. The mistake was I believed what an MP said. It was a Tory (Tory: An American who favored the British side during the American Revolution) MP. If he had not said it and the chief superintendent had not agreed with it, we would not have gone with it." This explanation was not accepted by families of Hillsborough victims. Even fifteen years after the Hillsborough disaster, the circulation of The Sun in Liverpool is still reckoned to be only 12,000 copies a day where previously it was around 200,000.

The Sun itself issued an apology "without reservation" in a full page opinion piece on 7 July 2004, saying it had that "committed the most terrible mistake in its history." The Sun was responding to the intense criticism of Wayne Rooney (Wayne Rooney: wayne rooney (born 24 october 1985) is a footballer who currently plays for manchester...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) , a Liverpool-born football star who then still played in the city (for Everton (Everton: everton f.c. is an english football club from the city of liverpool and was founded in...
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In fairness to The Sun, it should be noted that many other newspapers also detailed the same allegations on the same day, which apparently originated from a source within South Yorkshire Police attempting to divert blame, but the Sun attracted particular opprobrium for its use of the huge "THE TRUTH" headline.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/hillsborough_disaster

papawaigo

The Sun is Scum !

It represents everything that is wrong with the world, after their atrocious lies over Hillsborough it should have been put out of print yet they carry on printing disgraceful "news" such as the recent comments over the Arsenal footballer Niccolo Galli.

Don't be one of Rupert Murdoch's puppets!

rdwarr

I think we've wondered enough off topic to close this one. Wish I'd bought The Mirror now.

Bert_Anderson

It's funny the fuss people make about seeing a set of (..generally attractive and not to mention perfectly formed) boobs in some rag and talking about morality issues and what age etc etc...

After all whats the first thing most infants see anyway?

Sheesh....;)

freebie_junkie

id say the sun was the nations best selling paper because its only got a reading age of 8 oh yeah and its got t*ts on page 3.

freebie_junkie

the daily mail has a long established Nazi past and even supported Hitler in his early days. nowadays they just settle for hating everyone whos not white, upper middle class and snobby as hell (i think a gypsy single mother on benefits would NOT want to buy it)!

rammy007

my son couldnt buy a newspaper but he can deliver them,very strange!!!

Miroslav

I think anyone with internet access who buys any newspaper, is hardly moneysaving, unless you buy it for something 'free'.

You can find all the news online, and it doesn't cost 30p+ like newspapers do, and is reguarly updated.

As for 'The Sun', surely it should have a "Do not sell to over 16's" warning.....it's a comic isn't it?

Dora_the_Explorer_5

...........but you can read a newspaper in the bath, on the bus, train, in the queue at the post office / bank, waiting at the school gate

:j

RichyRich

Miroslav wrote:

As for 'The Sun', surely it should have a "Do not sell to over 16's" warning.....it's a comic isn't it?

So's Viz. And that says "Not for sale to children" on it.