The Sun Newspaper

[Rhythm Thief]

I'd nick a copy when no one was looking.

 

[asterix]

Well you would need something to wipe your arse with all those prunes and figs to live on.

When Hillsborough happened I lived in Manchester and as we all know Mancs hate Liverpudlians. Nevertheless the local newsagents was left with most if not all copies of the infamous Sun on that occasion.

 

[Emmanuel Obikwelu]

All the people who say they don't buy the the Sun or ever read the Sun are desparate to have people think that they don't buy or read the Sun and what for I wonder.
Who gives a shoot what papers you do or don't read.
The thread is about an innocent old man out minding his own business on a bike ride being attacked by a hammer weilding 20 year old thug.
This could quite easily have been a murder and I am very surprised that there are people who are more interested in commenting on what the incident was reported in rather than the content of that report.

There should be messages of support in this thread for the cyclist and his family calling for the head of the thug on a plate FFS.

The focusing of attention on the newspaper rather than the story is understandable given the topic title "The Sun Newspaper". I doubt the same would have resulted if the title had been "motorist beats up cyclist with hammer" or similar and the name of the newspaper mentioned as an incidental fact.

 

[david k]

SurlyNomad, on 11 September 2011 - 17:42:29, said:

(i think we know this, nothing against you but feeling and emotions are strong over that paper)


But the thread is about being hit with a hammer for riding too slowly! Not about a newspaper. I havnt been a member long enough to know everyones taste on reading material and i apologise for opening a can of worms! I myself will read whatever is put in front of me whether rightly or wrongly. I dont believe everything that is written but i just wanted to highlight the cowardly attack of an old man by the youth of today. I thought that this forum would have been the perfect place to highlight such an attack especially with it being cycle related. How wrong i was! The majority on here are more bothered about where the info came from rather than the story. Yes it was horrendous what happened Hillsborough, It shouldnt have happened, and if ive opened up some old wounds for some then this was not my intention and i full heartedly apologise again.//

All the people who say they don't buy the the Sun or ever read the Sun are desparate to have people think that they don't buy or read the Sun and what for I wonder.
Who gives a shoot what papers you do or don't read.
The thread is about an innocent old man out minding his own business on a bike ride being attacked by a hammer weilding 20 year old thug.
This could quite easily have been a murder and I am very surprised that there are people who are more interested in commenting on what the incident was reported in rather than the content of that report.

There should be messages of support in this thread for the cyclist and his family calling for the head of the thug on a plate FFS.

many thread deviate off topic, regarding the sun it is hardly way off topic when its the title of the thread. It is relevent to mention as the story was relating to a story in that newspaper, if we dont read it it is perfectly normal to say so and say why. the thread then continued to discuss the paper as people asked why. then people like you discuss it further which leads to replies, and the discussion goes on again. If you really dont think there is an issue to discuss the paper then dont generate posts relating to it. If you truely think the only posts that can be posted are relating to the story and not the title of the thread then can you please remain on topic

 

[Stephenite]

and as we all know Mancs hate Liverpudlians.

This Manc doesn't hate Liverpudlians, or even scousers for that matter.

 

[Bobtoo]

Yet another shocking story involving a cyclist, however, the bloke that was using the hammer must have been very inept at using one, either that or it was a rubber one. I think most people who had been hit that many times would be very seriously injured, or dead. Unless of course there was a little bit of creative writing going on, in a tabloid? What was I thinking

I thought the same. It's churnalism rather than creative writing though, it seems to be exactly the same wording as in the local rag.

 

[david k]

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I saw him on Question time about 3 months ago. Complete and utter moron who ranted and raved yet did no really know what he was ranting and raving about.t
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and when did that ever stop a journalist?

 

[SurlyNomad]

Ok i get the idea that no one or hardly anyone likes the sun! fair do's and for whatever reason i dont want a debate on it as i was only highlighting the fact that an elderly gentleman was attacked while riding a bike. At the end of the day i for one hope hes ok.

 

[dellzeqq]

pound to a penny the kid with the hammer was a Sun reader

 

[david k]

pound to a penny the kid with the hammer was a Sun reader

reader?

 

[dellzeqq]

reader?

oops!

 

[Hip Priest]

The Sun is a Newspaper Shaped Object.

 

[RedRider]

The Sun is a Newspaper Shaped Object.

More an anti-newspaper. I'm not a violent man but dread to think what'll happen if I ever come face to face with Kelvin Mac***zie.

 

[david k]

I find it funny that nobody reads the sun, but......

Best-selling papers as of January, 2011, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, are The Sun, 3,001,822, The Daily Mail, 2,136,568 and the Daily Mirror, 1,194,097.


I find it more disconcerting that 2,136,568 people buy the mail.....

as far asi am aware these feelings are only in merseyside, or most noticeable in merseyside anyway

 

[Bicycle]

We kept reading the Telegraph when it was in the hands of Conrad Black.

We kept reading the Times when it was (and remains) in the hands of RM and his honest clan.

Nothing we now read about Black or Murdoch surprises anybody, because it seems to fit what we expect.

Plenty of people (not I) read the Express when it was in the hands of the enthusiastic pornographer Desmond.

Plenty of us still watch Channel 5, which he now owns...

The Sun is an easy target. Sun readers will always be ridiculed.

I have no feelings one way or another about how it covered Hillsborough. I think one can keep a slight simmering for too long.

The Merseysiders who now boycott the Sun cannot have stopped buying it if they were not at some stage buying it....

The Times still sells on the Mersey, despite being owned by the same family.