Topic: Council backs boycott of The Sun newspaper

[gemofabird]

Our local Council has passed a motion asking local newsagents to stop selling The S*n.

Derry City and Strabane District Council has passed a motion asking local newsagents to stop selling The Sun.

The motion was put forward to show "solidarity" with the families of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster.

It also called on the council to support the campaign group Total Eclipse of the S*n, which wants all shops to boycott the newspaper.

A spokesperson for The Sun described the move as "extreme censorship".

"We are astonished that in Derry - a city that has prided itself on its association with civil liberties and free speech - some elected politicians think it's appropriate to push such extreme censorship on its citizens and retailers," it said.

'Lies after lies'
The vote was proposed by independent councillor Paul Gallagher and supported by 27 SDLP, Sinn Féin and independent members.

One unionist representative voted against, whilst seven more unionists abstained.

"This newspaper has produced lies, after lies, after lies," said Mr Gallagher.

"In the aftermath of the Hillsborough inquiry, we wanted to show solidarity with the families, just as they showed solidarity with the families of Bloody Sunday.

"People are still free to make a choice, we are requesting not telling."

Liverpool councillors unanimously backed a similar motion to stop selling The Sun earlier this week.

The newspaper has been widely boycotted in the city because of its accusations following the Hillsborough disaster.

All 96 fans who died as a result of a crush at Hillsborough were unlawfully killed, inquests concluded in April.

Mr Gallagher agreed with those sentiments but also cited local examples of "terrible hurt" he said The Sun caused.

In 2006, The Irish Sun's front page said: "Husband mows down vigil gran".

The article referred to Nellie Doherty, 78, who died when a vehicle shunted her husband's car which then hit her as she prayed by the road for a friend killed in another accident.

The newspaper later printed an apology, but Nellie Doherty's sister, Margaret McDaid, said at the time that it was not enough.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-37516436.amp

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[Billy Elliot]

Shame the fucking Labour party can't do the same. Makes me sick.

https://twitter.com/IanByrneMP/status/1422471063791939609

https://spiritofshankly.com/speaking-to-the-sun/

[BobOnATank]

Damn right Derry 

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Shame the fucking Labour party can't do the same. Makes me sick.

https://twitter.com/IanByrneMP/status/1422471063791939609

https://spiritofshankly.com/speaking-to-the-sun/

People have been talking about this in another thread.

I personally can't stand the S*n and obviously would never buy it.

However, it is the most read publication in the UK and if Labour wants to get elected then it needs to get its message out - even to S*n readers.

Tricky one, but the Labour Party aren't Liverpool based and as we've seen with the likes of Southern politicians like Corbyn - they read it.

So to get the message out or not? Principals against just being a protest party?

[Indomitable_Carp]

Good on the people of Derry. The sooner this gutter rag gets fucked off by all and sundry the better.

[WhereAngelsPlay]

Good on the people of Derry. The sooner this gutter rag gets fucked off by all and sundry the better.

Better late than never I suppose.

[RainbowFlick]

Good. Boycotting The S*n should go way beyond just Liverpool fans or Scousers. That paper has done harm to pretty much all decent parts of society.

[Jshooters]

Good. Boycotting The S*n should go way beyond just Liverpool fans or Scousers. That paper has done harm to pretty much all decent parts of society.

It really has. I’ve just finished the audiobook of ‘Sunburn’ by James Felton(blurb below).  Although I was expecting a shitshow it was still an eye opener of the depths that they’ve sunk to over the decades since murdoch took over

You should buy this book if: a) you dislike the Sun, but have never actually read it to know why and/or b) you're still not sure how we got into this mess.

Using his famed on-the-nose commentary, Twitter legend James Felton has dissected 99 of the most outlandish stories the Sun (for a long time the biggest-selling British newspaper) has run since it became a tabloid in 1969, hoping to answer once and for all whether the press has reflected - or manipulated - the British people over the last 50 years.
     

[Commie Bobbie]

It really has. I’ve just finished the audiobook of ‘Sunburn’ by James Felton(blurb below).  Although I was expecting a shitshow it was still an eye opener of the depths that they’ve sunk to over the decades since murdoch took over

Proper eyeopener that. Have only listened to it once, that was enough frankly.

[Macphisto80]

"We are astonished that in Derry - a city that has prided itself on its association with civil liberties and free speech - some elected politicians think it's appropriate to push such extreme censorship on its citizens and retailers," it said.

What the fuck do them scumbags know about the city of Derry and the people there? Cheek of the bastards.

[So… Howard Philips]

Good. Boycotting The S*n should go way beyond just Liverpool fans or Scousers. That paper has done harm to pretty much all decent parts of society.

It was shite well before Hillsborough.