Boycott The Sun

I love that the link mentioned annoying Murdoch.

Do they realise just how big News Corp is?

Also to boycott something you really have to have been contributing to it in the first place, otherwise I could say I've been boycotting it since birth.
 
the worst thing about this (the alleged illegal obtaining of the medical records of browns poorly son) is that they purposefully leaked the allegations now to take the focus off the notw new allegations. i actually felt sorry for gordon brown. this all happened not long after he'd buried his daughter. the vulltures couldn't let him mourn in peace, they had to keep digging for more. what business is it of the public that his son has CF? it isn't any of our business so why not keep the anti labour mission (after they'd backed labour for decades) to the grown up politicians, not their children. scumbag journalism.
 
scorza said:
I used to mock scousers for still boycotting the s*n to this day. I would now like to apologise for that and state I'm now with them :mad:
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Glad to hear it. It beggers belief what they reported about Hillsborough and got away with it. As far as I know there was never even an apology issued.

It was proven that The Sun MADE UP the most disgusting and inflammatory lies about that day.
 
Hmmmm I read the Scottish sun daily but only for bop age and sport


Although I am yet to buy a copy this week

I shall continue this boycott and that swine Murdoch will never see my 30p a day again

Although he can still have my £100 a month for my sky stuff


Wonder how many people boycotting the sun line his pockets in other ways lol
 
Biohazard said:
What did they comment on it like?

I've heard about the discontent but never the detail.
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You mean after Hillsborough? If so, they printed this on the front page:

  • The Truth:
  • 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".

Liverpool legend and the manager of the club at the time Kenny Dalglish was greatly affected by the tragedy. He attended numerous funerals and visited people in hospital, some of whom were in comas; he spent time with those that had lost their loved ones. In his autobiography he talks about the Disaster and recalls the media coverage:
“The press coverage was difficult to comprehend, particularly the publication of pictures which added to people’s distress. There was one photograph of two girls right up against the Leppings Lane fence, their faces pressed into the wire. Nobody knows how they escaped. They used to come to Melwood every day, looking for autographs, and that photograph upset everyone there because we knew them. After seeing that I couldn’t look at the papers again.
When the Sun came out with the story about Liverpool fans being drunk and unruly, underneath a headline ‘The Truth,’ the reaction on Merseyside was one of complete outrage. Newsagents stopped stocking the Sun. People wouldn’t mention its name. They were burning copies of it. Anyone representing the Sun was abused. Sun reporters and photographers would lie, telling people they worked for the Liverpool Post and Echo. There was a lot of harassment of them because of what had been written. The Star had gone a bit strong as well but they apologised the next day. They knew the story had no foundation. Kelvin MacKenzie, the Sun’s editor, even called me up.
“How can we correct the situation?” he said.
“You know that big headline – ‘The Truth’?” I replied. “All you have to do is put ‘We lied’ in the same size. Then you might be all right.”
Mackenzie said: “I cannot do that.”
“Well,” I replied, “I cannot help you then.”
That was it. I put the phone down. Merseysiders were outraged by the Sun. A great many still are.
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"The newspaper has still not made an unconditional apology for what it printed. Its editor of the time has never made an unconditional apology in all of that time."
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All the above taken from http://dontbuythesun.co.uk/site/.
 
Forde said:
You mean after Hillsborough? If so, they printed this on the front page:

  • The Truth:
  • 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".






All the above taken from http://dontbuythesun.co.uk/site/.
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With how interconnected the press and the political establishment are I find it unlikely that we will see enough recourse and rehabilitation of the morallity of the press. It's a subject surrounded with metaphorical mine fields, but this Say/Blame now and possibly pay minor damages later cannot go on. It is, in effect with poor regulation, a licence to do as you please.
 
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