For those who only thinks that the Sun is all about its page 3,
then I guess you all have very little knowledge of its other
stuff... lol.
For those who are not aware... It has been a regular winner of
the British Press Awards over the years... It has done many
charity events as well even the famous Band Aid ones where it got
all those rockers to come together for Africa. It was they who got
Bob Geldof into it to get everything started again...
They even raised millions for injured British servicemen and
women during the war...
They have campaign for free books at schools for
children who were unable to afford... They got 3.5m books worth
about $20 million into 98 percent of UK schools... Books
written and produced by The Sun were also endorsed by the
Government for use in UK schools.
As I have said earlier, it has its pros and cons. But when the
pros outweigh the cons... It's definitely much better to have them
around. Cos when politicians or the powerful becomes "dirty" it is
up to these organisations to bring justice and order back for
the weak common man by exposing them... When perceived role
models show poor judgement or bad habits, they are also made to
answer and apologise, and people will realised not to continue
to take them as good role models in future. When high ranking
government members make serious mistakes, pressure are
place onto them to step down and they normally do in these
countries. Good investigative Press are needed for all these to
come together... Cos no one in their right mind from the
official establishments are ever going to give you
this reports.
You don't become the highest circulated newspaper in
the whole of UK and have the 2nd highest circulation of any
English language newspaper in the world by dishing out rubbish most
of the time. Of course lots of serious stuff and news breaking ones
are also part of its content. If naked women is all you think it
sells, then you are dead wrong about this... Its just one page, and
in today's internet savvy society... its really
nothing where printed naked pictures have been
easily available in Europe for more than 30 years... I
think it's more like just a handphone add to the readers over there
these days as we see here in our local newspapers. Its not
taken very seriously. Its really not a big deal unless for those
who have not came across it before makes it out to be the
world...lol. Over there, it has been around for
like 30 to 40 years I believed... Even our Hp adds haven't
been around for that long...lol.
Research done on their readership shows that an almost equal
amount of women reads them too. A percentage of 56% male to 44%
female. So I don't think the majority of women are too bother
with its page 3 ladies either having grown up being used to them
everyday. I think they find it's something not noteworthy
unless you are the occasional tourist or a student from Asia...
lol.
Sensationalising alone doesn't necessary mean you will sell
more newspapers... There must be more to it than that. Our very own
experienced with the New Paper is probably the best example... It's
the most sensationalised English press in Sg but are its
sales doing better than The Straits Times? A simple No.
For those who wish to continue to make the Sun as negative
as they can, I tell you honestly, you can really don't need to do
so... Cos they and its others will just continue everyday even
with your constant barking...
We can be dis-interested by it, we can choose to be
indifferent to it, or we can simply don't even be bother with it...
To be frank, I don't feel much for it as well, I can
accept it has its good and it's bad... It can disappear the next
day and it's still fine with me. I will just move on to the many
others available thats all. But while its still around, I also
belief it deserved a fair judgement to its work done over the
years.
A feeling of thought just came to me... It
just seems ironic that most of those who claim it is
rubbish or something bad, or negative... are mostly pool
fans I notice. I can see from the first page of this thread and
also notice in others threads and forums, that it's mostly the
Pool fans that have the biggest negativity to it. Others don't
really care. They read without having too much emotions
lace into it... They take it at face value only and accept that it
is good and bad at times...
Therefore, I said Pool fans should try to forget 1989
altogether... I believed some have already. Although some will
choose to continue to live in denial and claim its not that episode
that forms their opinion in the first place. But subconsciously, it
is... Otherwise, they wouldn't feel so strongly to
it till now... I notice always when there is an issue about
the Sun (not the one up there), you can be sure a few pool fans
will come around... Its like bees to honey...
strange.
I say they can choose to be indifferent to it
like they have been to many other not important issues...
Hopefully they can or we can see others young
pool fan wannabe being indifferent to all right now... But
might very well go the same way as those a generation earlier...
Like forming to hate or dislike it for the sake of being
a "true pool fan". But deep down, they probably don't
even know why but guess its the right thing to do in order to be a
better fan. Like I have said earlier, it was a long time ago. Don't
let the new and younger fans carry the burden of yesteryears with
them... You can be a good and true fan without the
prejudiced or the animosity towards the Sun... Just be a
fan who loves the club for it is...
lots written...but alas nothing more than plagarism from wiki
with a touch of singlish.
zocoss:
Personally I find the Sun a very good investigative
newspaper...
this is what you written above that is mind-boggling, even
borders on moronic. it has got nothing to do with the circulation
of the sun, readership mix, etc.
the sun, when sold to media mogul rupert murdoch, took
a deliberate decision to position itself as a trashy,
irreverent downmarket tabloid that centers its content around
frivolous headline, sex, sports and entertainment to capture the
working class readership in britain. that it attracts women
readership doesn't mean that the sun is a paper that can be
taken seriously. the only section that some thought the
sun took its reporting seriously is politics, but even that there
are detractors that maintains that the sun just `go with the flow'
on its political stand.
sure, it may have mooted the band aid idea as wiki claims, but
it doesn't make the sun any better in terms of investigative
journalism (whatever that means).
....i am inclined to go on &on but obviously it is OT.
you may enjoy the sun's irreverent headlines and scoups,
interesting articles and the occasional nipple, but investigative
paper it is not.
