Topic: 20 more reasons to never buy the S*n

[Em5y]

An argument often put forward with regard to the S*n boycott is 'the guilty people are no longer part of the paper - why still punish them?'. A lazy argument really - if this is the case, why dont the present incumbents swallow their pride and admit to their dirty history? But the S*n has a long history of kicking people when they are down.
'the guilty people are no longer part of the paper - why still punish them?'

Be under NO illusions - The S*n is still up to it's tricks - you never know when it will turn on you.

There are already 96 reasons you should never buy the rag - here are 20 more which show that they have not learnt their lesson. I have included the links from where I found these stories so you may read about the rag and its shameful past in more detail.


1). GOTCHA – The S*n and it’s reporting of the Falklands war.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/falklands/story/0,11707,657850,00.html

MacKenzie happily embraced the legend of "Gotcha". Indeed, the day after the Belgrano's sinking, the Sun's front page, "ALIVE! Hundreds of Argies saved from Atlantic", played down the fact that 368 men were killed. Later, comparing death to a game of football, MacKenzie produced the headline: "BRITAIN 6 (Georgia, two airstrips, three warplanes), ARGENTINA 0."
By now, MacKenzie had opened a second front, seizing the chance to fight another war - for circulation - by attacking the Daily Mirror which, alone among the tabloids, adopted an anti-war stance. A Sun leader spoke of "the traitors in our midst", such as "the timorous, whining Mirror" (and, incidentally, "the pygmy Guardian"). MacKenzie was making an overt attempt to win over the Mirror's audience by appealing to their sense of patriotism. The Mirror hit back with an editorial headlined "The Harlot of Fleet Street", which called the Sun "coarse and demented", a paper which had "fallen from the gutter to the sewer", and concluded: "The Sun today is to journalism what Dr Joseph Goebbels was to truth."
Though Petrie later argued that the Sun had supplanted the Mirror as the paper beloved by soldiers and sailors, the paper's official historian quoted a serviceman who said, "Your headlines often made us feel sick", and that there were "ritual burnings of the Sun" on the task force vessels.
MacKenzie, convinced that he was properly articulating his readers' views, was unconcerned. He even laughed off Private Eye's spoof Sun headline, "KILL AN ARGIE AND WIN A METRO", joking: "Why didn't we think of that?”


2). Anything to stay popular…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/15/newsid_3068000/3068749.stm

Five years after its arrival on Fleet Street, the Sun was up for sale partly because of losses dating back to its predecessor, the Herald.
As a broadsheet, the paper was attracting a daily readership of one million.
There were two key players interested in buying: the millionaire Labour MP Robert Maxwell and the right-leaning Australian newspaper proprietor Rupert Murdoch, who already owned The News of the World.
Mr Murdoch clinched the deal and immediately relaunched the Sun as a tabloid - shortly followed by the introduction of the Page Three girls.
In 1978 The Sun overtook its closest rival The Mirror in the circulation war.
In 1986 Mr Murdoch introduced new print technology and moved the Sun to Wapping.
In 1997 the Sun returned to its Labour roots and backed Tony Blair for Prime Minister.
In 2002 the paper's circulation was about 3.6 million.


3). Page 3

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1122926,00.html

The Sun has launched a scathing personal attack on Labour MP Clare Short, branding her a "killjoy" and "fat and jealous" of its Page 3 girls.
It hit out at the maverick Labour MP after she renewed her attack on Page 3 girls, branding pictures of topless models "degrading pornography".
Using a montage of Ms Short's face superimposed on a topless model, it likened her to the back of a bus and and "jokes" that making her into a Page 3 girl would be "mission impossible".


4.) It’s attitude towards Asylum seekers…

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1104109,00.html

The Press Complaints Commission has been branded "disgraceful" after it decided not to force an apology out of the Sun for a story claiming asylum seekers in London had poached and eaten swans.
The Sun published a small clarification in Saturday's paper over a front page report in July about the disappearance of swans in Beckton, which alleged police had caught asylum seekers with swans which they were preparing to roast.
The newspaper admitted nobody had been arrested over any such offence, but maintained that numerous members of the public had accused eastern European refugees of killing the birds to eat.


5.) Lies…Lies….Lies

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1004408,00.html

The Sun today apologised to Kate Adie and paid an undisclosed sum in damages after falsely accusing the veteran war reporter of endangering the prime minister's life by revealing details of a foreign trip.
Adie agreed an out of court settlement with the Sun over a front page story headlined "Sack Kate Adie - fury at security boob", in which the newspaper claimed she had revealed top secret details about Tony Blair's visit to the Middle East.


6). Uncaring about the individual.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,931562,00.html

The Sun has apologised for a second time to a man whom it wrongly identified as a child sex offender.
On March 29 the tabloid published a picture of a man over the headline "Face of kid ban pervert". The adjoining article stated that the photograph was of Christopher Harris, who had been banned from going near children for life after assaulting girls in Great Yarmouth.
However, owing to a mix-up by a picture agency, the photograph was in fact of David Gazley, a man with no connection to any such offences.


7). Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,909837,00.html

The Sun has become embroiled in a row over accuracy after the 14-year-old boy named in today's front-page story claimed the article was wrong.
George Barlow burst into tears as he denied the newspaper's claims that he had been "insulted" by Prince Philip.
Under the headline "You old Git, Phil", the newspaper reported that the gaffe-prone Prince had insulted the teenager while on a visit to his school.
The Sun said the Prince had "sneered" at Mr Barlow, a fan of the royal family who wrote to the Queen to request a visit to his school in Romford, Essex.
"Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then. Ha, Ha!" The Sun reported the Prince as saying.


8 ). Invasion of privacy.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,903724,00.html

Pressure for the government to tighten controls on the press intensified yesterday when the Sun outed the Labour MP Clive Betts.
Fellow MPs raised the issue of press intrusion at Labour's weekly parliamentary meeting yesterday morning, attended by the culture secretary, Tessa Jowell. Intrusion is already the subject of an inquiry by the select committee on culture, media and sport, chaired by Gerald Kaufman, a champion of statutory controls.


9). Right wing and racist.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,879372,00.html

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/images/0,11312,879370,00.html

Press watchdogs are to investigate the Sun following complaints about a satirical feature on asylum seekers, yardies and drug dealers who, the paper claimed, are flourishing "under New Labour".
One week into her job as Sun editor, Rebekah Wade provoked accusations of racism with the paper's controversial reinterpretation of the much-loved children's characters the Mr Men


10). The culture of the newspaper

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1083071,00.html

Rupert Murdoch's company, News International, paid £500,000 to silence allegations of serious sexual harassment against a former editor of the Sun newspaper, a Labour MP claimed yesterday.
Stuart Higgins was accused of crude and offensive behaviour towards his executive secretary during the time he edited the paper between 1994 and 1998. The Labour MP Clive Soley told parliament that staff on Britain's biggest-selling daily newspaper had suffered "sexual harassment and bullying".


11.) Courting controversy to attract readers.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1065603,00.html

Campaigners for children's rights have severely criticised the Sun's "Shop a Yob" campaign to name and shame youngsters who are subject to anti-social behaviour orders.
The policy adviser to the Children's Rights Alliance for England, which represents more than 180 organisations, expressed her concerns about the initiative.
"We're very worried about it. It smacks a little of lynch mob behaviour," said Terri Dowty.
As part of Shop a Yob the Sun has published the photographs, names and ages of youngsters who have anti-social behaviour orders against them.


12). Nicole Kidman

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1062727,00.html

The Sun has apologised to Nicole Kidman and agreed to pay her libel damages and legal costs over false allegations that she had an adulterous affair with Jude Law.
The allegations, which appeared in the Sun on March 5, caused the Hollywood actress "considerable embarrassment and distress", her solicitor, Keith Schilling, told Mr Justice Eady at the high court today


13). The Beckham Kidnap Plot.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/medialaw/story/0,11614,973840,00.html

The News of the World exposé of an alleged plot to kidnap Victoria Beckham was based largely on the unsupported testimony of a serial fantasist with a history of mental health problems.
Last week the Crown Prosecution Service announced that all the charges relating to the kidnapping were to be dropped because the main witness, Florim Gashi, 27, was unreliable.
The CPS reached this decision after learning that Gashi had been paid £10,000 by the newspaper. But an Observer investigation has found that much of the evidence provided by Gashi had been fabricated and that other key elements had been engineered to support his version of events.


14). Prize draw blunder.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/thesun/story/0,12950,1050380,00.html

The Sun suspended four journalists after a major error in a money-winning competition left the tabloid liable to pay out more than £1m to readers.
A features executive, two subeditors and a page-builder were suspended over a production error that doubled the number of winners in the Starstuck competition, although not all of those eligible have claimed their prize.
All four, however, were quickly reinstated following an investigation into the mistake, which appears to have occurred while editions of the paper were being changed.


15). Frank Bruno

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,1047966,00.html

The Sun was last night forced into a humiliating about-turn following a storm of protest over a front-page headline that labelled former boxer Frank Bruno "bonkers", after he was taken to a psychiatric hospital.
In the first edition of the paper the front page splashed with the headline "Bonkers Bruno Locked Up" above a story that labelled him a "nut", prompting a storm of protest from readers and mental health charities.
Realising it had misjudged the public mood, the Sun's editor, Rebekah Wade, was forced into a climbdown, changing the headline to read, "Sad Bruno in Mental Health Home", with the accompanying story labelling him a "hero".


16). Cheriegate

http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,7494,988753,00.html

The Sun has been found guilty of "one of the most serious forms of physical intrusion into privacy" by watchdogs over taped telephone calls involving the boyfriend of Cherie Blair's lifestyle guru Carole Caplin.
The press complaints commission said the paper was wrong to have published the transcripts of the conversations between Australian conman Peter Foster and his mother.


17). George Galloway – Traitor.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,928738,00.html

George Galloway MP today branded the Sun newspaper guilty of "cancerous racist pornographic propaganda" after it described him as "an enemy of the state".
"The Sun is owned by Rupert Murdoch; so patriotic that he has been a citizen of three different countries in 15 years, a kind of serial patriotism which is the last refuge of such scoundrels," Mr Galloway said.


18). A reporters view…Why I quit the Sun.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,7558,925903,00.html

Last week, Katy Weitz resigned as a feature writer on the Sun because of the strength and tone of its support for the war in the Gulf. Here she sets out her motives


19). Racism

http://education.guardian.co.uk/students/story/0,9860,895674,00.html

The Sun newspaper has been banned from Leeds University student union shops in protest against its portrayal of asylum seekers
The motion, proposed by student Rebecca Allen and seconded by Tim Nicholson, was passed yesterday with 121 votes for and 111 against at the university's annual general meeting.
Ms Allen said the motion had been prompted by "unnecessary racist articles" that had appeared in the paper.
The motion read: "The Sun newspaper is now carrying out a vicious campaign against asylum seekers and the basic human right of asylum in general."
The newspaper, which sells 3,000 copies a month in union shops, will not be available for one month, or until it drops its "racist campaign", the motion said.


20). The fire service boycott.

http://www.kirkbytimes.co.uk/news_items/boycott_sun.html

Kirkby Times is more than willing to draw attention to the recent attacks by the Sun Gutter Rag on the Fire Brigade. Not surprisingly, the Sun or SCUM as its known in Merseyside, has decided to approach the strike guns blazing for Blair and as usual employing its well known tactic of attacking any Union which dares to ask for more than 2 0r 3% payrises. The Journalists who work for the Sun, are not only paid more than the Fire Brigade, they have actually deluded themselves that they are some sort of service to society. Its time now for a new generation of Merseysiders and indeed anyone in the UK and beyond to Boycott this Gutter Rag. Through the Internet we can help to destroy the monopoly the mass media hold on passing on information.

The S*n loses millions because of our boycott - but their belief is that over time, younger people will ensure it is all forgotten about. Please visit http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough and educate yourself and others about what happened that day.

Education is the key.

Justice for the 96.

You'll Never Walk Alone.

[Murf]

Cant be arsed but
I live and work in the shit hole called
London,,no disrepect
the West ham lads are like me
1 BORING
3Love footy
4Buy the s-----------n
5 Great read so to believe
but to round it all off to a tee
2 DONT BUY THE S*N
AND
4   I DONT   SO WHY SHOULD YOU

[Mottman]

http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspu...1119883,00.html
From the Guardian

The S*n's circulation has fallen to its lowest level in 30 years after dropping nearly 5% in just 12 months, dealing a blow to Rebekah Wade who is this week celebrating a year in the editor's chair.
Sales of the tabloid newspaper fell below 3.3 million in December for the first time since January 1974, 4.95% down on the previous year.

It reached just 3,277,000, according to audited ABC figures, well down on the previous year but still well ahead of January 1974 when it last fell below the psychologically significant 3 million mark.

December is traditionally a slow month for newspaper sales and the Sun was by no means the worst performer.

But the figures will nonetheless come as a psychological blow for the paper, which has enjoyed a relatively stable circulation over the past three decades thanks in part to its aggressive pricing strategy.

More than 100,000 readers deserted the paper in December compared with the previous month, a fall of more than 3%.

This was more of a drop than any other national daily paper except the Daily Star and the Daily Express.

The 5% year-on-year drop will be particularly embarrassing for Wade, who took over last January and has spent the first week of this year watching arch-rival Daily Mirror dominate the news with its scoop that Princess Diana believed Prince Charles wanted her dead.

In the final year of her predecessor David Yelland's tenure the S*n's circulation increased by 4.2% to just under 3.5 million a day, while the Daily Mirror's fell by 0.75% to just over 2 million.

The one consolation for Wade will be that the Mirror's sales have fallen even further, dropping 6.5% year on year to 1.9 million last month.

The figures for both papers are particularly dramatic because they were artificially boosted by low prices in 2002.

The Mirror called a truce in its bitter price war with the S*n last spring, at the instigation of new Trinity Mirror chief executive, Sly Bailey.

The war, launched by the Mirror in May 2002, is estimated to have cost the Sun £65m. At its peak, more than 2 million copies of the paper were being sold at a discount.

No one at the S*n could be reached for comment.

May it long continue to drop

[Mottman]

Fans urge boycott of the Sun "newspaper"
Posted on Monday, April 14 @ 19:37:53 GMT by Rushian

Tomorrow, the 15th April, is the 14th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster and people across the country are being urged to boycott the Sun newspaper as the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC) continue their fight for justice. Before Saturday's match with Fulham the HJC handed out 30,000 stickers. Posters, leaflets and letters have also been distributed to newspagents throughout the Merseyside area (many of which are currently forced to take the newspaper by their distributors). Some of these posters were held up on the Kop on Saturday:
http://live.vg.no/live/images/kamp/2003-04/5175.jpg


The background to the boycott lies in the coverage by the Sun newspaper, edited at the time by Kelvin Mackenzie (now head of TalkSport) on the Wednesday following the disaster. It ran a front page article under the banner headline “The Truth” and proceeded to make outrageous claims that the fans had robbed and urinated on the dead, as well as beating up police as they tried to carry out the rescue operation. These allegations have, of course, been proven to be total and utter lies.

http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/history/media.shtm

The response on Merseyside was one of outrage. Copies of the paper were burnt in the street and a boycott begun. The Press Council was flooded with complaints and ultimately upheld those complaints about the Sun’s disgraceful coverage of the disaster and found them guilty of lying. Despite this damning verdict Rupert Murdoch's newspaper has to this day refused to publish an adequate apology for the coverage and as a result the boycott remains in place.

A recent article in the Press Gazette (20th March) testifies to the power of the boycott:

"The Sun is still struggling with the legacy of Hillsborough, 14 years after the most disastrous publishing decision in the newspaper’s history, the National Readership Survey’s figures suggest. In North West England, The Sun is a poor second to the Daily Mirror"

It has been estimated that the boycott has cost News International £125 million in revenue and half a billion in sales and the newspaper is acutely aware of this:

"Ian Clarke, advertising director at The Sun, admitted this week: 'We know it was a mistake .... but every year it [the boycott] softens slightly as a younger audience comes through.' "

The paper has used many methods to increase sales again including heavy discounting of the price and radio ads on Merseyside up to the disgraceful full page advert in this season's Worthington Cup Final programme.

Whilst the newspaper is boycotted by many Reds across the country many of our younger fans are unaware of the lies that were printed by the rag and the still strong support for the boycott. The best way to make them (and others) aware is through education. For more information on the Hillsborough Disaster and the Justice Campaign visit:

http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/

Keep the boycott strong and Justice for the 96

[Mottman]

Taken from Kenny Dalglish - My Autobiography.


When the S*n 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 S*n. People wouldn’t mention its name. They were burning copies of it. Anyone representing the S*n was abused. S*n 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 S*n’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 S*n. A great many still are.

[IrishRed]

hope the bastards fall further into the shit.


s*n = 





buy the s*n?
I wouldn't even wipe my arse with it

[Millsee]

"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."

Question: What would happen now if the S*n turned round and said " We will print  'We Lied' as our headline".

[Mottman]

Question: What would happen now if the S*n turned round and said " We will print  'We Lied' as our headline".

I not sure to be honest, I would suspect that the HJC would "under duress" cease issuing literature etc supporting the boycott and may perhaps see it as a moral victory.

As individuals I think the people of Merseyside and the UK would still boycott the rag.

[IrishRed]

whilst i can only speak for myself but should such a situation arise i would still never purchase that rag.

they have caused enough anger, hurt and sorrow and caused enough damage to simply forget what they done.

[Em5y]

Question: What would happen now if the S*n turned round and said " We will print  'We Lied' as our headline".

Like Robbie says - I would see that as something of a moral victory.  But I think there are enough reasons in this post which highlight why I personally will never touch that rag.

[Em5y]

21 reasons to never buy the S*n - sent to me by Hou-Houllier...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=483505

Shipman coverage blamed for rise in prison suicides
By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
22 January 2004


Harold Shipman's death is being blamed by the Prison Service for a spate of inmates hanging themselves in apparent copycat suicides.

In the five days after the serial killer was found dead at Wakefield Prison, five prisoners ­ including three people on remand ­ have been found hanged in their cells. The hig-profile nature of Dr Shipman's death has influenced other inmates, prison sources say

A senior Prison Service source said that after Shipman's death it had anticipated a surge in the death rate, which is running at four times last year's levels.

"All the pictures on television will have put the idea in people's heads. That sort of coverage can tilt people who are already on the edge," he said.

The death of Dr Shipman was the lead story on most newspapers and news channels.

The Prison service blamed a "bidding war" between 24-hour television news channels and red-top tabloids for the most graphic and detailed accounts of Shipman's death for encouraging inmates to contemplate suicide. A spokeswoman said: "If a suicide is covered nationally, as it was with Shipman, we expect an increase in self-harm incidents." However, she admitted that the rate after the former GP's death had been "almost unprecedented".

The service has been particularly annoyed by a graphic in The Sun giving instructions to Roy Whiting, the killer of the schoolgirl Sarah Payne, on how to take his life. After several complaints from members of the public, the Press Complaints Commission is considering whether to take action over the report.

Hours after Shipman's body was discovered,prompting saturation coverage of the death on television and radio news bulletins, April Sherman, a prisoner on remand, was found hanging in her cell at Edmunds Hill prison, Suffolk.

The next day, Phillip Taylor, a convicted drug dealer, apparently committed suicide at Blakenhurst Prison, Worcestershire. Over the weekend Philip Rustell was found dead at Reading Young Offenders' Institution, Berkshire; James Skelly at Portland Young Offenders' Institution, Dorset; and Craig Roach at Exeter Prison, Devon.

Enver Solomon, a policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said: "If you have vulnerable people suffering high levels of distress and there's a lot of public attention and media focus on a suicide, that could be a factor in forcing them to go further than they would have done otherwise."

Martin O'Neill, a spokesman for the Samaritans, said: "There is evidence that the repeated portrayal of suicide in the media can lead to copycat incidents. However, that does not mean that discussing the issue is a bad thing. A responsible portrayal of the issue is important."

Martin Narey, the Commissioner for Correctional Services at the Home Office, has admitted it has faced "a nightmare" this month with suicide levels. Last year, 94 people in custody killed themselves, one below the previous year's record total, and there were an estimated 15,000 cases of inmates deliberately injuring themselves, an increase of about 30 per cent. Anne Owers, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, this week condemned in her annual report the "shocking" suicide rate in jails, warning that the "debilitating" impact of overcrowding was a crucial factor.

After a review of suicide policy, changes will be introduced in the way potentially suicidal inmates are handled, with greater emphasis on assessing their mental state and whether they have drug problems.

A scheme under which prisoners are trained to become "listeners" for depressed cellmates will be expanded andPrison staff will also be given greater instruction in spotting suicidal signs among prisoners. More "safer" cells, with fewer ligature points, will also be opened.

* The Prison Service is to pay £120,000 to seven former young offenders who complained they were assaulted by officers.

The seven claimed they were punched, slapped, kicked and had their heads slammed repeatedly against the floor by segregation block wardens at Portland Young Offenders' Institution in Dorset.

[hampsy]

Then there was the time when (late eighties/early nineties I think) when Hackney Council in London had apparently banned schools in the borough from singing 'Ba Ba Black Sheep'- because it was racist. Turns out the story had been invented by the S*n.

Even when you've never read the scum-rag their lies can still get to you in the end, even years later, doing unmeasurable damage to minorities and the disadvantaged. They love nothing better than sticking the boot in, always have, always will.

Bit late for an apology now, and besides- who would believe them?




   

[Filler.]

'Without deceit, there is no fascism'.

[Em5y]

You never know when that rag will turn on you...

Further evidence - wonder how Wayne feels now about flogging his story to them?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4904254.stm

Newspapers to pay Rooney damages 
 

Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney has accepted damages of £100,000 from the publishers of the Sun and the News of the World.
The newspapers had falsely reported the striker slapped his fiancee Coleen McLoughlin during a row at a nightclub in Cheshire in April last year.

Rooney strenuously denied the story and will donate the damages to charity.

At the High Court the newspapers' publishers, News Group Newspapers Ltd, accepted the allegations were false.

Rooney and Ms McLoughlin were not present at Tuesday's hearing in front of Mr Justice Eady.

 
The 20-year-old player's solicitors, Schillings, said he intended to donate the damages to charity.

The damages reflected "the gravity of the libels", they added.

A statement from the two newspapers said: "With only 58 days to the start of The World Cup, The Sun and The News of The World are pleased to have reached a settlement with Wayne Rooney.

"We can now put this case behind us and focus on a great tournament.

"We wish him and the England team every success in Germany and look forward to welcoming them back with the World Cup trophy."

 

[shanklyboy]

A statement from the two newspapers said: "With only 58 days to the start of The World Cup, The Sun and The News of The World are pleased to have reached a settlement with Wayne Rooney.

"We can now put this case behind us and focus on a great tournament.

"We wish him and the England team every success in Germany and look forward to welcoming them back with the World Cup trophy."

What has that statement got to do with the courtcase?
Even when they admit in a court of law that they just made it all up, they don't have the common decency to acknowledge it publicly.
Wrapping it up in The Flag of St George.......getting behind 'our boys'.
There again, we shouldn't be surprised that they believe statements like this will carry any weight. They just have to look at their own readership figures to see that there are still millions out there who buy this drivel.
Still far to many newsagents selling it in Merseyside too!

[The Bill Hicks Appreciation Society]

fair play to rooney for donating the money awarded to charity, especially when the reneging little twat owes Mikey £700,000

[Glorious Future]

I see they felt the boycott was "softening" 3 years ago. I wonder if that's still the case - that they believe it, or if it's true?

I suspect greater publicity and awareness means it has "hardened", actually. Anyone know?

[The Cappuccino Kid]

The lowest of the low.

A shit rag with no integrity whatsoever and the people who read it are ignorant, braindead facists.

[buzzing]

"but it has tits"

 

[Laughter is the best medicine...]

Isn't 'its full of shit' not a good enough reason?

[the invisible man]

 

The Rag is a rag and shit is shit...

if you want tits..

donate 35p to HJC and I'll show you my tits...

(only problem is I'm a bloke...sorry... must be wortha donation to stop me)

Lemmo...

[-HH-]

Family of crash victim refuses to accept Sun’s apology
20/06/2006 - 11:09:01

The family of a Co Tyrone woman killed in a road accident in Co Donegal last week is refusing to accept The Sun newspaper's apology for claiming her husband killed her.

Nellie Doherty was laying flowers at the scene where a friend of hers was killed in a crash two days earlier at the time of the accident.

Her husband was sitting in their car, which was shunted by a passing vehicle, crushing Mrs Doherty against a crash barrier.

The Sun covered the story under a banner headline reading "Husband Mows Down Vigil Gran".

It later apologised, but a sister of the dead woman has refused to accept the apology, saying the damage has already been done.

[Robin Duke]

fair play to rooney for donating the money awarded to charity, especially when the reneging little twat owes Mikey £700,000

Did he give any of the money he made out of selling his story to them to charity though?

[Garsonite]

Walking round town today, there are too many about - on the dashboards in vans, people sitting by the big screen reading them. No word of a lie - in the three or four hours I was in town today, I think I saw more Sun newspapers than I did of all others put together. It's a disgrace.

[raptor]

Walking round town today, there are too many about - on the dashboards in vans, people sitting by the big screen reading them. No word of a lie - in the three or four hours I was in town today, I think I saw more Sun newspapers than I did of all others put together. It's a disgrace.

Agreed. I spent 20 minutes sat outside a paper shop this morning and counted roughly 15 people walk out with newspapers. 6 of them had the Sun.

[LFC on tour]

Agreed. I spent 20 minutes sat outside a paper shop this morning and counted roughly 15 people walk out with newspapers. 6 of them had the Sun.

Thirded, seen loads of them around the streets when im walking back from school. One turned up in the 6th form common room but it didnt last long.

[anfieldpurch]

my english media COURSE requires you to compare the S*N,Mirror,Times and the Express/Mail

[Em5y]

my english media COURSE requires you to compare the S*N,Mirror,Times and the Express/Mail

Sounds like a good opportunity to explain the the tutor/class why you don't read the Sun - You could start by printing off this thread and taking it to class.

[anfieldpurch]

ive told her but she says OH WELL. What i will do is get the rest of my group to write out the paper and look at it. Ill go outside and play footy. Then get them to write in my book for me. Then cover it in red. so i dont read it and get them to write it in my coursework so the AQA dont deduct 25% so i have chance of A-C grade or to type it up on mine. I will stick some DONT BUY THE S*N stickers on it.

[rockykabir]

If it wasn't gonna be the S*n it would have been something else. They are all as bad as each other - and the sad thing is that people will continue to buy it and get brainwashed by it

I refuse to buy any tabloids. Period.

The Guardian is the one for me.

[Laughter is the best medicine...]

ive told her but she says OH WELL. What i will do is get the rest of my group to write out the paper and look at it. Ill go outside and play footy. Then get them to write in my book for me. Then cover it in red. so i dont read it and get them to write it in my coursework so the AQA dont deduct 25% so i have chance of A-C grade or to type it up on mine. I will stick some DONT BUY THE S*N stickers on it.

or just scab a copy off someone, paint that paper in a bad light

[bunnet]

I just hate the fucking man  http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3031 Sign it if you please lads.

Heres the article. Follow the link  http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39727

[Rafalutionary]

When you think he can't sink any lower he proves you wrong.

[Rizla]

All excellent reasons...add to that the paper has always been shite. 'Newspaper' my arse. Since when has anything they have printed been factually informative?

[the invisible man]

Rafalution...

When you think he can't sink any lower he proves you wrong.

yes he can,, he's like BoB The Builder... yes he can... He can rot in hell..

he is just the scum on top of the scum... 

Lemmo...

[5BigCups]

the fucking rag- i hate it

[shangtsung]

the newspaper of the uneducated. I think i read somewhere once that to read the sun requires a reading age of about 3. horseshit paper.

[cowlos]

I just hate the fucking man  http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=3031 Sign it if you please lads.

Heres the article. Follow the link  http://taboard.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39727

Just signed petition. Any campaign against this scum is worthwhile

[buzzing]

the newspaper of the uneducated. I think i read somewhere once that to read the sun requires a reading age of about 3. horseshit paper.

i heard it was 8. but still, as you say its for the uneducated.

I hate them fuckers who read something in there and take it as truth.

Horrid paper, that gives tits (page3) a bad name lol

[the invisible man]

 

simple...

never, ever, ever, never, buy, look at or read the shitty filthy sc*m rag ever again... 

let them go bankrupt and then we can throw a party...

simple innit...

Lemmo...