The Sun newspaper

[Twiz]

What does everyone think of it? Does anyone read it? As a paperboyI read my papers, and the Sun is the most dumbed down, sleazy thing I've ever read! It looked to me like it was written by an 8 year old. It is mearly a mix of celebrities, sport and sex, disguised as a paper. No offense to people who read it by the way, it's just how I feel.

[sheep go moo]

Lat summer i was a paper boy for a long time and i realised the exact same thing.
All it was, was sleaze, gossip and sport, with a hint of sex.

[Twiz]

A hint? Their idea of a funny comic is a 3 framed comic of a woman getting out of a shower, accompanied by 'Have you heard about the Mars Rover?'(man hands her towel because shes naked) 'Yes, it was destroyed I think' (close up on woman(still naked))'no it was wheel clamped'

HAHAHAHAH ROFLOL thats the kind of thing that B3ta found funny 3 months ago! But they made funny pcitures.

EDIT: Sorry I'm quite tactless, you have to speak slowly and clearly(like the Sun)

[sheep go moo]

I was being sarcastic.
There is so much sex involved that i was so sick of it.

[mr jones]

in a fairly weird way i do enjoy the sun, i read it every saterda morning when my head won't quite focus and loaugh my ass off at th 'human intrest' small stories. theres some weird people out there...

[Psychokilla]

The suns easy to read because the target audience are all knuckle gragging cavemen with the common sence of a slightly retarded wombat.

But they do show tits everyday.......which is a bonus:D

[Dr S]

Originally posted by Twiz
What does everyone think of it? Does anyone read it? As a paperboyI read my papers, and the Sun is the most dumbed down, sleazy thing I've ever read! It looked to me like it was written by an 8 year old. It is mearly a mix of celebrities, sport and sex, disguised as a paper. No offense to people who read it by the way, it's just how I feel.

you have oviously not read the star, my paper of choice - If the Royal Family all took part in a mass suicide then they'd probally put that in a small coloum on page 7 for Jordon slaps Jodie Marsh for the front page news

[Mellomeh]

What about The Sun's superb agony aunt page? With the most uneducated people writing in (although how they manage to write is beyond me) and asking if they can get pregnant from shagging their pet goldfish to which the agony aunt submits a brief reply and then encourages them to ring her special hotline tha costs £99 a minute (maximum call length is about 3 hours of course).

[Jon]

the whole sun sucks. It is completely full of made up cr*p

[Stringy Pete]

The sun isn't actually that bad a newspaper, the really bad ones are the star and the sport.

Sun > Star > Sport

And as of late the Sun has been better than the mirror, because they like printing a load of poop and opinion (probably because of Piers Morgan, hopefully the mirror will get better now).

[Electrostatic]

I can't read anything but a broadsheet if I actually want news. But on the other hand it is quite fun to read papers like the Sun every now and then to scare yourself by seeing what some people are willing to take as the truth, in the same way that it's funny to watch Fox News. Also papers like the Sun do have 'other attractions'.

[Chookmeister]

What aggravates me about the down-market tabloids more than anything else is their moralising, judgemental tendencies.

The Sun had an article in it about a year ago regarding a photograph of a baby girl sitting on the sand, naked, which was up for auction. The problem that numbskulls had with this photo was the fact that the girl was sitting with her legs wide open. If you ask me, it's a picture of innocence.

Of course, because the picture could possibly be an attraction to paedophiles, it was inherently "vile". It was disgusting because of the potential reason for a hypothetical person buying it. The thought going into this reasoning is practically nil - it's simply unfathomable. Perhaps it is also vile for people to allow their children to run naked on the beach because there could possibly be a paedophile watching.

If the same story was reported in a broadsheet (I don't know if it was), the article would have been informative, and nothing more. Stupid people like 'news' that makes snap judgements and agrees vehemently with their viewpoints, no matter how badly thought out they are. Presumably the journalists writing it like the intellectual respite they are afforded in the process, being able to write articles that are founded only on observations of their target market.

PS. I don't usually write disclaimers, but not everyone who reads the Sun is an idiot. You'll just be hard pressed to find an idiot who reads a better quality newspaper.

[plattbridger]

All tabloids are awful with possible exception of the Daily Record :p

Hurrah for broadsheets like the Torygraph and Times!

[Mystery Pie!!!!]

I have a very sad friend who reads the Sun Newspaper Scotland, but can only get past page 3 to look at the Premier comic and his daily horro-scope. Shocking, isnt it.

[Chookmeister]

Originally posted by plattbridger
All tabloids are awful with possible exception of the Daily Record :p

Oh, that's awful too. :)

[Dingbat]

Originally posted by Chookmeister
Oh, that's awful too. :)

Aye, but it's awful in a good, Scottish way ;)

[HammerandSickle]

Me and my friend were sitting in maths making comments about "sweeney" who was "reading" the daily sport.
We then started talking about hope crap tabloid were especially "The Sun".

"Sweeney" then turned round at the mention of "The Sun" and said "You read the sun too? Put it there mate!" while he held out his hand, we paused and then laughed in his face.