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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.
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.
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The Sun are supposedly very pro-English, and they do massive stories on the World Cup and England's hopes. So then, why do they fill half a paper with the Sven Goran Eriksson 'scandal'? Where he went out for a meal with Ulrika Jonsson (sp?)
Idiots. Do they want him to leave?
I usually just nick my Dad's Telegraph and skim over it. I don't know much about current affairs though, rarely watch the News. And yet, I watch the Sky Sports News channel for about half an hour everyday.
Idiots. Do they want him to leave?
I usually just nick my Dad's Telegraph and skim over it. I don't know much about current affairs though, rarely watch the News. And yet, I watch the Sky Sports News channel for about half an hour everyday.
Oh dear indeed
Oh dear.
Franny wrote:
> I disagree with every point you made. Sorry. The Sun is a fantastic
> newspaper.
I agree it is sheer briallience why i think
They take the mick out off Tony blair
They have cool pictures, from whats happend in that day.
Page 3!!
:P
> I disagree with every point you made. Sorry. The Sun is a fantastic
> newspaper.
I agree it is sheer briallience why i think
They take the mick out off Tony blair
They have cool pictures, from whats happend in that day.
Page 3!!
:P
Tony wrote:
> The views expressed by the staff of Special Reserve constitute a bona
> fide expression of personal opinion and do not construct any
> implication however remote that the management of Special Reserve in
> any way agree, approve or condone such opinion or hold the same
> opinion or have allowed or given permission for such opinion to be
> expressed.
rofl!
As for NOM having a revamp. I can't comment, that's how I remember it was when I got it :/
> The views expressed by the staff of Special Reserve constitute a bona
> fide expression of personal opinion and do not construct any
> implication however remote that the management of Special Reserve in
> any way agree, approve or condone such opinion or hold the same
> opinion or have allowed or given permission for such opinion to be
> expressed.
rofl!
As for NOM having a revamp. I can't comment, that's how I remember it was when I got it :/
I must disagree with your NOM comment. It's pretty good now after the revamp and they write more, with less spraff and pictures.
Yet the Sun is still a really c**p paper.
Yet the Sun is still a really c**p paper.
I was gonna write a topic on this.. I bought it out of interest and because i had to (English homework)= two days. I bought the Sun, Mirror and Star and came to conclusion each one was worse than the other..
I'd say stcik to the Evening Standard. Good Content and Good weekday Supplements
I'd say stcik to the Evening Standard. Good Content and Good weekday Supplements
Ah you just nicked my sarcastic post last night which I stole from the Private Eye and turned it into a post :)
Simple thing to do is not read it... think I looked through it once at a Barbers and was in shock at how bad it was...
Read The Herald like me.
Simple thing to do is not read it... think I looked through it once at a Barbers and was in shock at how bad it was...
Read The Herald like me.
The views expressed by the staff of Special Reserve constitute a bona fide expression of personal opinion and do not construct any implication however remote that the management of Special Reserve in any way agree, approve or condone such opinion or hold the same opinion or have allowed or given permission for such opinion to be expressed.
Mr.Snuggly wrote:
> If you want to read proper news, don't buy The Sun. Simple. It's been
> like this for ages, and it's not like it pretends to be something it
> isn't. The Mirror however, gets my goat. They are masquerading as a
> 'proper' newspaper, yet they'll still put a big picture of Kelly Brook
> on the front to sell a few copies. They also put a negative slant of
> every single story, and do the opposite of whatever The Suns says,
> which is pretty damn childish in my book.
>
> Read The Guardian.
Firstly, Franny I give you this: "Pffftt"
And Snuggly, I do read The Guardian or Times occasionally, it's The Sun just really gets on my nerves. And it always seems to be the same types of people that get the Sun. It's funny. For example you get the lottery mad people who buy it, the skinheads buy it, and the people that look like builders buy it. It just irritates me when they announce they have a "newspaper". I feel like correcting them sometimes ;-)
I don't mind the Mirror so much as it occasionally has days with propers news in them, when there is proper news.
> If you want to read proper news, don't buy The Sun. Simple. It's been
> like this for ages, and it's not like it pretends to be something it
> isn't. The Mirror however, gets my goat. They are masquerading as a
> 'proper' newspaper, yet they'll still put a big picture of Kelly Brook
> on the front to sell a few copies. They also put a negative slant of
> every single story, and do the opposite of whatever The Suns says,
> which is pretty damn childish in my book.
>
> Read The Guardian.
Firstly, Franny I give you this: "Pffftt"
And Snuggly, I do read The Guardian or Times occasionally, it's The Sun just really gets on my nerves. And it always seems to be the same types of people that get the Sun. It's funny. For example you get the lottery mad people who buy it, the skinheads buy it, and the people that look like builders buy it. It just irritates me when they announce they have a "newspaper". I feel like correcting them sometimes ;-)
I don't mind the Mirror so much as it occasionally has days with propers news in them, when there is proper news.
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