I agree though the Guardian isn’t much better. I gave up when the sports desk started to routinely criticize Bush :rolleyes:
I gave up on the Graun when I worked in a government policy they had it in for and the sheer depth and breadth of the lies they were willing to tell to make their point became evident. Given how the Graun presents itself as a shining beacon of ethics and morality that was the end of the line for me.
I suspect most of the staff on the Sun are at least peripherally aware that they are more in the entertainment business than the news business. What shits me to tears are papers such as the august Melbourne Age that present as serious broadsheets but indulge in the worst kind of prurience and go to almost any lengths to make their headlines pun. At least the Sun is content to be what it is.
For an insight on some of the lies that the paper regularly prints have a look here :- http://the-sun-lies.blogspot.com/
The Sun will consistantly have mammary glands on page 3. Thats about all that they are consistant or reputable about.
Well played sir, well played.
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Put me down as a toucherupper. 
It’s £150 a week. I hope you can afford that.
Another example of the stupidity of the Sun.
The proposed transfer of Kaka from Milan to Man City was in the region of £100M.
This in itself is a ridiculous amount, but The Sun went further and quoted the deal as being £238M
IANA reader of The Sun, but IIRC the weekend editions of the paper are tit-free?
So that’s another thing you can’t rely on it for.
it’s = it is or it has
its = that which belongs to it
You know those comments people make about how much they hate posters who feel the need to point out spelling and grammar errors?
Eh, I nevr beleev tehm.
On the question of the use of English. The Sun might be a crap newspaper but last year it was given an award by the Plain English Campaign . Quote:-
*The judges said of The Sun: “It was time to honour its hard-hitting, frank and plain-speaking journalism.
“It can be difficult to deliver political news without resorting to jargon but The Sun’s writers and subeditors are skilled at copy which informs rather than condescends.”*
Could it mean that they only use very simple words to match the intelligence its readers?
Eh? Surely the ‘weekend Sun’ is The News of The World - notable for a lack of many things, but tits aplenty.
Isn’t there a Saturday Sun?
ISTR my mother, an educational psychologist, pointing out to me that by some measures, The Sun has a reading age of about 9.
I can’t provide a cite. She probably could, but I doubt she’d be interested enough to do so.
ETA: I always found political news very easy to understand. News about science, art and so on tends to be more challenging.
Monday to Saturday I buy The Telegraph.
Sunday I get the NoTW for the football reports which are the best of the bunch.
Honestly;)
The Plain English Campaign group is a bunch of idiots. I’ve seen them castigate perfectly lucid English because it seems complex to them, and this in legal and parliamentary documents where ‘simple’ sentences and wording would be disastrous by their ambiguity and vagueness.
The media pay these fools far too much attention.
I believe you cos I buy the Sport for its financial news.