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"The Sun Sucks"

The Sun is just a joke. It's one of the best selling "newspapers" yet it's a load of rubbish. All the articles revolve around showbusiness - scandals, what's happening in a TV show, who's going out with who - hardly news really. More important stories to the world like the fact there could be a war between India and Pakistan take the centre pages while "really important" stories like the Angus Deaton scandal take the front page... it just doesn't make sense. It has no right to call itself a newspaper, hardly any news is contained in it.

When you open the paper, it looks as if it's a comic for 12 year olds, Nintendo Official Magazine springs to mind. On Wednesday this week, I found a copy on the train (I wouldn't buy it, I have morals). In it every single page was full of childish comments about how people "love their Sun" and how "it's so much better than the Mirror". Every blooming page filled with comparisons to the Mirror from Sun readers and how they love it. Do these people have no lives? Firstly they LIKE The Sun. Secondly they wrote in to say they LIKE The Sun. Thirdly, some of these people are like 50 years old and they are saying how rubbish The Mirror is.

And the fact is The Mirror isn't actually rubbish anymore. Ever since it's stopped acting like The Sun with similar stories, it has become more like a newspaper then a colouring book. For example, ever since September 11th they have printed story after story about the War on Terror - serious news. Meanwhile The Sun is probably wondering about whether Kylie Minogue is still going out with that boy or who will be the next Big Brother contestant. Today for example, The Mirror is ABUSING Big Brother. Looks like they've changed for the best, so how people who read and write to The Sun can that The Mirror is rubbish I have no idea.

So why do people get The Sun? The television guides alright if your a soap fan, although it basically tells you the entire storyline ruining it for people who watch it. I wonder how many years the Judge will give Mo on Eastenders? 8 years - says so in The Sun. I remember a while ago they did a whole two page spread on how Martin Kemp was going to leave Eastenders... sigh. Yet people buy it, again and again, and it always seems to get sold on in the shop I work in. I think it's basically people thinking it's essential to get a "newspaper" on Saturdays, and since The Sun has a reading age of 8 (I think someone actually proved that) it's the easiest option. Nice and colourful, lots of pictures, hardly any writing, a topless girl on the third page - sounds like a good paper to me.

Well it's a load of rubbish, and I hate the stupid paper and refuse to read it. Okay, I've said it now. Thanks for hearing me out.

I find the Times to be the least biased broadsheet. There's always going to be a certain amount of bias, even in the Reuters news briefs, because everyone's got an opinion, and you can't prevent that from influencing you.

I read the broadsheets at work, they are maybe less geared to an instant 'shock horror' reaction, but no less bigotted and bias than the tabloids. They all represent some standpoint in politics, it's part of their selling point.

I get the Mirror on Saturday because it has a nice TV guide and a glossy magazine that Gina likes to read. It doesn't, as far as I can see, contain any useful or life changing knowledge at all in the paper.

Newspapers in general seem to all take one standpoint and stay fixed to it. The only one I can remember which I found impressive was Today, which took all the political viewpoints from different standpoints, but then that went bust.

I just read Reuters news (completely unbiased) and things like Yahoo, which takes Reuters information anyway. I'm not saying that because I work there, but because I know that it has to be unbiased by law, so that it can provide the world with the coverage it does. All I need is the facts, not someone shoving their political leanings in my face and telling me what I should be thinking.

All the illiterate morons need a newspaper to make them look intelligent. Although why they don't just buy NOM, its so crap, is beyond me.

Daily Star is my fave...Made me happy to see the back page spread of "Fergie in £25M bid for Rio"...all made up crap but it still lights up my day :)

And you cant go wrong at the current price of 10p :)

I only buy papers to read the sports news while on break at college or somthin.

Any serious news i just find out on the internet when i get home...

why do people buy the Sun???

see page 3...

The sun is crap though so i fully agree.

Yes, let's all smoke Nuptune, and have lengthy and ultimately pointless discussions about world politics.

There are always a multitude of 'serious' stories to choose from in the 'real newspapers'. Every few days a new story, or a new slant on an old one, but ultimately much to the same effect. Something tragic has happened/is happening/could possibly happen but probably won't, so you can read all about it with a frown on your face, and a feeling of frustration at the folly of mankind.

The world is never going to sort out it's problems. Que sera sera. There is little point troubling your mind with all of humanities problems, life's too short.

The Sun doesn't pretend it is something it's not. It will briefly cover the bare bones of any important news stories going, most likely in the center pages. However, primarily it is for entertainment. News doesn't have to exclusively feature current affiars. 'Importance' is a relative concept. News is news, whether it is what you regard as 'newsworthy' is another matter altogether, and an irrelevant one.

The Sun doesn't take itself too seriously, and neither should anyone else. It is good at what it does, and that is all it needs to be.

Yes, the Sun does suck rather a lot.

What, me?

Ohh... my jaw open ascii art didn't come out too well :( Never mind.

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I can't believe he just said that..