The lies printed in The Sun that you will read about below were aimed at Liverpool supporters, people from Liverpool, people from the North of England, football supporters of any club. If you fall into any of those categories you certainly shouldn't be buying, reading, or visiting the website of that newspaper. If you are a decent human being you will be steering clear of it from now on, even if you've not done so before. If you buy the paper regularly already, print off all of this information, and save your money tomorrow. Read these articles instead. If you still want to buy that paper the following day I would be surprised.
The boycott of The Sun goes back to April 1989. On April 15th 1989 a disaster took place which resulted in the deaths of ninety-six Liverpool supporters at Hillsborough, the home ground of Sheffield Wednesday, during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Ninety-six people had their lives crushed out of them. A lot of injustices came out of that disaster, far too many to list here. For more information visit the Hillsborough Justice Campaign website at http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough and please try to support them.
This article concentrates on one piece of injustice that could so easily have been avoided. That could so easily have been made a little better, if not fixed, in the intervening years. Lies were printed as fact in a British newspaper, and that 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.
The headlines and sub-headlines on the front page of The Sun newspaper on the Wednesday following the disaster were as follows:
The Truth.
Some fans picked pockets of victims
Some fans urinated on the brave cops
Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life.
So just four days after their loved ones had died, four days after they had narrowly escaped death themselves, Liverpool supporters were confronted with those headlines. People actually believed those headlines. Those who were there did not believe the headlines of course, nor did those who knew people who had been there. Unfortunately though a lot of people did believe those headlines; people who were not Liverpool supporters, perhaps supporters of another team or people who did not follow football at all. The headlines sewed seeds in so many peoples minds that the 96 supporters died at the hands of their own kind. All lies, all proven to be lies, yet never put right by that publication.
[quote author=smokey link=topic=5672.msg64579#msg64579 date=1203768612]
It's widely known that Ben Collins is the Stig, it's even printed in the HSE accident report following Richard Hammond's crash
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I didn't widely Know! I only found out yesterday! Dam!
Thats like coming up with a great invention only to find that theres ten different makes of it already! :lol: :lol: :lol:
[quote author=Norris! link=topic=5672.msg64652#msg64652 date=1203792881]
who cares who the Stig is! The Stig is better as The Stig, he wouldnt be as cool if he was someone
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