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THE SUN: 22ND APRIL 2009

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2389328.ece

JADE Goody’s sons were facing new heartbreak last night after their cancer-stricken great- grandad killed himself.  Relatives were preparing to break the news to Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, after they returned from Australia yesterday.

I am sorry but this is not news and it also breaks the PCC’s Editor’s code.  How desperate are they to keep anything to do with Jade in the news.  Is it purely because it is so easy to do and it sells.  Anyway which part of the editor’s code in regard to children did they not understand?


Children
i) Young people should be free to
complete their time at school without
unnecessary intrusion.

v) Editors must not use the fame, notoriety or
position of a parent or guardian as sole
justification for publishing details of a child’s
private life.

These children have not asked to be thrust into the public eye and the Sun should not be free to photograph them.  they have a right to Privacy!

THE SUN:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/money/article2389674.ece

“ALISTAIR Darling today soaked the rich with tax rises — and hit Sun readers with rises in petrol, booze, cigarettes and even bingo to pay for the black hole in Britain’s finances.”

Are their really no high earning Sun readers, well I suppose they know their market better than anyone.

Interesting to watch the Sun in action trying to convince it’s readers that taxing the rich is a terrible thing to do. They did their best of course in ignoring any potential benefits to it’s readers of this tax, instead focusing on Beer, Petrol, and cigarette rises to try and get the people on side in their low taxes for the rich ideals. Coming straight from the top no doubt from the Mr Rupert Murdoch himself who is notoriously shy of paying any tax at all.

Nice to see the Sun showing who they really support whilst pretending to be the newspaper of the working man.

He vowed to:-

*hammer £150,000 earners with a new 50p top rate of tax and an end to pension relief

*smash £100,000 earners by abolishing tax breaks

*pummel drivers with a £600million increase in petrol tax

*hit drinkers by slapping two per cent on the price of booze

*and pick the pockets of bingo players by slapping new taxes on the industry.

Alistair Darling did not vow to ‘Hammer’, ‘Smash’, ‘Pummell’, ‘Hit’ or ‘pick the pockets; of anybody at all. It is the Sun that have chosen to use these adjectives to sensationalise this budget as much as possible in attempt to shape and form opinions that suit it’s agenda rather than report the news.

The Sun continued with this classic:

“And last night experts queued up to pour scorn on his claim that his tax hikes will save Britain from disaster.”


Can I just ask which experts? Experts that just happen to share their point of view? I’m pretty sure there would be plenty of experts who would think it’s a good idea to redistribute wealth a little at the moment. Not of course ones the Sun would call on.

“They pointed out his forecasts of economic growth by 2011 of 3.5 per cent a year are WILDLY optimistic and may never happen.”

“Tories were already describing it as a “Bulls**t Budget” because his predictions will not happen.”

“That would mean MORE tax rises in years to come, they warned.”

Mr Darling admitted Britain is up to its eyeballs in debt and borrowing will hit a historic £175billion this year.

“National debt will double to a staggering £1.4TRILLION — which would mean saddling every new child born with lifelong debt of £22,500.”

THE SUN COULDN’T HAVE CHOSEN A BETTER SENSATIONALIST SOUND BITE TO PUSH THEIR IDEA TO THE PUBLIC. HEY?

THE SUN: APRIL 16TH

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/special_events/green_week/article2379564.ece

I just had to point out this extremely unlikely sweeping statement from the SUN concerning locals complete happiness at having a nuclear plant on their doorstep.  Apparently all locals in the potential vicinity of the new sites are chuffed as anything because of the jobs they will bring.  Not one of them of course has any concerns about nuclear waste, high radiation levels or even studies suggesting their children will be exposed to a higher risk of cancer or any such potential problem.  All of them in fact, just can’t wait to get a job there.

“Nuclear power is part of the low carbon future for Britain.  It also has the potential to offer thousands of jobs to the UK and opportunities to British businesses”

Now here comes the sun’s sweeping statement:


COMMUNITIES EFFECTED WELCOMED THE MOVE AND THE JOBS IT WILL BRING

What a sweeping statement and where did it come from?  So I think we can take it that the Sun is behind the massive development of nuclear power in the UK then.  Do you know what that scares the shit out of me, because if the sun is backing it you can bet your life it’s the wrong thing to do.  Just like the Iraq war or Anti-terror laws, if the Sun backs it do the bloody opposite.  it’s like a universal law.

Nuclear POWER we love it:  Buy the Sun. BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE SUN: April 16th

This is quite laughable and once again stinks of Sun newspaper hypocrisy.  Look up hypocrisy in the dictionary and I swear, in detail it explains exactly what the Sun newspaper is.  It’s quite uncanny!  Go on try it



The truth is the Sun newspaper is exactly the kind of outlet for just these kinds of smears, false rumour and lies.  Their close relationship with members of the police force enabled the front page smearing of the city of Liverpool after the Hillsborough tragedy.  When the fireman were on strike the Sun newspaper connected Fire union leaders with Saddam Hussein.  I actually agree with the sentiments expressed in this Sun says and feel certain that there should be a full inquiry into the Prime Minister possible involvement in this. As we need to put an end to spin lies and smearing via the media.  But the idea that the Sun is squeeky clean in regard to this is a joke.  They are quite possibly the biggest professional smear organisation in the UK!  To put an end to spin, the Sun newspaper would be one of the first places I’d go , they are a production line of unsubstantiated rumour, character assassination and opinion forming yellow journalism.


On a slightly different note, it seems to me that the Sun are about to switch their allegiance once again back to the Tories.  They will probably do a deal with the shadow government to support them as Labour slides into greater and greater unpopularity. Garnering a few favours from the Tory leader for their support.  The Sun never turned Labour, Labour turned conservative and Rupert Murdoch was happy to support them.  Going back to blue won’t be a problem for them.  This gutter rag opinion forming tool purely wants always to be on the side of the government for mutual benefit.  That’s my opinion, I suppose we will have to wait and see.  But it sure is looking that way to me at the moment. At least this is my honest opinion which is more that can be said for a Sun journalist stuck within their boss’s editorial agendas. How do they sleep at night!

TheSun: April 16th

Today’s Sun says is quite funny for it’s complete Hypocrisy. In the article headlined
'Victim for Sale'

The sun reckons that the G20 protestor Nicola Fisher, hit by the Policeman with a swift backhander and then clubbed round the legs with a telescopic truncheon loses all credibility for allegedly signing up with Max Clifford for £50,000.  This is once again clear ‘if and and when it suits them hypocritical journalism.’  How many stories have the Sun shouted from the rooftops about that originated in the offices of Max Clifford?  Shed loads!!  I’m sure they were not emphasising this lack of credibility with those.  The newspaper is filled with cheque book journalism, didn’t Rupert Murdoch organisations even invent this very conception?  If not then they are certainly it’s master exponent and probably the highest payer for stories.  Anti-capitalist is a vicious swear word to Murdoch  and the Sun so when they use it please know that they are spitting it with venom.  To be honest who can blame people for being anti-capitalist at the moment after all we’ve witnessed recently from the fat cats sucking the money up and not letting it trickle down, destroying the economy and sending the world into deep recession with their greed! Perhaps people have every right to be getting a little angry, hey!



Cheque book journalism I have no doubt is a bad thing as it causes embellishment and sensationalism and the creation  of stories for greater profit.  The Sun calling this into question seems to me nothing more than them once again protecting the interests of the ‘powers that be’ as we have all witnessed this on many occasions in the past.  It is highly hypocritical of them once again as i’m pretty certain that they won’t be talking about lack of credibility when they finance and print their next shocking kiss and tell or celebrity expose!!!

Definition of a hypocrite:

A person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, esp. a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.

Or in other words The SUN