It cannot be right (Sun £9.50 train vouchers)

qetu1357

Azari wrote: »

Did you read that in the Sun? :rotfl:

No it's from the National Readership Survey (see previous post).

Did you not spot that?

qetu1357

goater78 wrote: »

You don't think its bad taste that 4 days after a tragic event like Hillsborough for a newspaper to post a story on the front page which says is large font "THE TRUTH". The article then went on to claim (again in bold font) the following claims

1) - Liverpool fans picked the pockets of the victims
2) - Liverpool fans urinated on police officers
3) - Liverpool fans beat up a policeman who was trying to resuscitate a fan.

You can defend "the Sun" all you like but there was only one paper that did this.

Another thing that annoys me about the Sun is the line in the story was actually "Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life". They use the phrase "kiss of life" as they are not confident all their readers understand what the word "resuscitate" means!

I do think it is in bad taste especially when it turned out to be not true.

But remember a Sun journalist involved in their Hillsborough reports said that they ran the story only after it had been ‘stood up’ by four senior policemen.

And other papers -albeit not the nationals - reported from the same press release as the Sun (see Hillsborough Report).

So the report was wrong but a report in a newspaper 20 years ago doesn't make a newspaper (or its readership) scum now.

System

qetu1357 wrote: »

I do think it is in bad taste especially when it turned out to be not true.

But remember a Sun journalist involved in their Hillsborough reports said that they ran the story only after it had been ‘stood up’ by four senior policemen.

And other papers -albeit not the nationals - reported from the same press release as the Sun (see Hillsborough Report).

So the report was wrong but a report in a newspaper 20 years ago doesn't make a newspaper (or its readership) scum now.

Unless I am mistaken (which is possible). I don't think i've said readers of the Sun are scum.

The paper just annoys me as with such a large readership they should try and educate their readers. Instead they just publish ill written rubbish which helps spread divisions in society.

qetu1357

goater78 wrote: »

Unless I am mistaken (which is possible). I don't think i've said readers of the Sun are scum.

The paper just annoys me as with such a large readership they should try and educate their readers. Instead they just publish ill written rubbish which helps spread divisions in society.

I didn't wish to infer you had. Others have, though, on this thread.

The Sun's job is not to educate - it is to sell papers. Something, even in a declining market, it does quite well. And I think the main reason people don't like the Sun is that the Sun say things they don't agree with.

Dave_C_2

But the Sun readers have exactly the same chance of getting the vouchers from Redspottedhanky as everyone else.
What is so special about Sun readers that reduce their chances?

Or am I missing something?

Dave

pmduk

Dave_C wrote: »

What is so special about Sun readers that reduce their chances?

You've missed the fact that many sun readers are special!

sweetstudent

ivavoucher wrote: »

You wouldn't want sun readers armed with travel documents would you, best to keep them static I say.

I'm considering studying for my Marketing Masters which will cost approx £10K in total, I read the sun occasionally. Just because The Sun is aimed at a social demographic does make all the readers as you would put it ignorant. If The Sun was no good then why is it still around - and we can blame the success of the paper purely on Page 3!

pmduk

qetu1357 wrote: »

And I think the main reason people don't like the Sun is that the Sun [STRIKE] say things they don't agree with.[/STRIKE] makes things up.

Introduced some accuracy for you.

qetu1357

pmduk wrote: »

Introduced some accuracy for you.

Sun 7m readers. Guardian 1m.

http://www.nrs.co.uk/toplinereadership.html

Appears more people like the Sun and more people don't like the Guardian...............

pmduk

qetu1357 wrote: »

Perhaps you should write for the Sun?

I've enough self-respect to not have anything to do with News International. You should try finding some.