The Sun Newspaper

[gb155]

I checked up on the balance of readership of newspapers a while back and found that more women read the mail than men and more men read the Guardian than women. This is because women are more caring and sensitive
I stick to the BBC and Channel 4 news as there are regulations ensuring balance on TV apparently though I couldn't find actual evidence of this.
I note that Gaz (the former 27 stone variety rather than 'Gaz') managed to post a thread with Daily Mail in the subject line and then went on to mention the Daily Star without starting a denunciation of the press (whereas I start a poll on RJIng which has turned into a slagging match wiuth confessions of animal rights terrorism )

Ah t'wasnt me that started the topic tho

 

[wiggydiggy]

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I do think one can bear a grudge for too long.

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Just to highlight that point as I agree with it and I do think some people take this grudge far too seriously. I was travelling last year on the same train as some Liverpool fans, I simply did not make the connection before I took a copy of the sun out my bag to start reading it. Immediately I was verbally abused, spat at and had my beard tugged (I kid you not!) for daring to read such a paper.

Was this a proper response? Of course not.

Could I have handled it better? Well if they had asked, I could have explained as an Evertonian I emphasized with them regarding Hillsborough and the response from the newspapers at the time, but a lack of choice at the station forced me into buying anything for travel reading.

It wont stop me from buying it from time to time, but I will certainly think twice before getting in out in front of drunken football fans in the future!

 

[Hip Priest]

Just to highlight that point as I agree with it and I do think some people take this grudge far too seriously. I was travelling last year on the same train as some Liverpool fans, I simply did not make the connection before I took a copy of the sun out my bag to start reading it. Immediately I was verbally abused, spat at and had my beard tugged (I kid you not!) for daring to read such a paper.

Was this a proper response? Of course not.

Could I have handled it better? Well if they had asked, I could have explained as an Evertonian I emphasized with them regarding Hillsborough and the response from the newspapers at the time, but a lack of choice at the station forced me into buying anything for travel reading.

It wont stop me from buying it from time to time, but I will certainly think twice before getting in out in front of drunken football fans in the future!

Of course, such behaviour is well out of order. If a Liverpool supporter (or indeed anybody) decides to boycott The Sun, then that's fine, but nobody has the right to force that boycott on others, or intimidate Sun readers.

 

[ian turner]

Look at it this way, that's 2million more that potentially now know, following my story, that cycling isn't the evil monster it's made out to be ( by the mail)

The readership are too stupid er clever to be that easily fooled. You really lost all that weight via liposuction financed from their taxes while you were on incapacity benefit

 

[ian turner]

but a lack of choice at the station forced me into buying anything for travel reading.

Must have been a copy of heat magazine available surely ?

 

[wiggydiggy]

Must have been a copy of heat magazine available surely ?

Probably, I'm too tight to spend the £2 though when theres a cheap and dirty 30p rag going

 

[Rhythm Thief]

... a lack of choice at the station forced me into buying anything for travel reading.

Christ. I'd sooner spend any length of time staring into space than read or be seen to read The Sun.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Christ. I'd sooner spend any length of time staring into space than read or be seen to read The Sun.

I can understand why its an awful paper, I spent most of my teenage years/20's reading it as the 'daily' although that was more because of a love for 'Striker' than anything else.

 

[ianrauk]

I can understand why its an awful paper, I spent most of my teenage years/20's reading it as the 'daily' although that was more because of a love for 'Striker' than anything else.

and Hagar The Horrible...

 

[wiggydiggy]

and Hagar The Horrible...

Thats the only decent one left these days as the vampire one is pants and the wallace and gromit one is abysmally bad. Striker was cancelled early as the writer reached the end of the club and the Sun wasnt interested in letting him finish the last 5 weeks of the story, typical attitude from them really.