The group also targeted the website of The Times.[141]. [222], This article is about the British tabloid newspaper. [204], In June 2020, shortly after JK Rowling published a blog in which she described her first marriage as "violent", The Sun interviewed Jorge Arantes, Rowling's former husband and published a front page article entitled "I slapped JK and I'm not sorry". Editions of the paper in Great Britain described the film The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) as being "designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud" and "the most pro-IRA ever";[216] conversely, the Republic of Ireland edition praised the film and described it as giving "the Brits a tanning". [84][85] It was revealed in a documentary called Alexei Sayle's Liverpool, aired in September 2008, that many Liverpudlians will not even take the newspaper for free, and those who do may simply burn or tear it up. Coronavirus cases and deaths - how many have there been in the UK? During the general election of 1983, The Sun ran a front page featuring an unflattering photograph of Michael Foot, then aged almost 70, claiming he was unfit to be Prime Minister on grounds of his age, appearance and policies, alongside the headline "Do You Really Want This Old Fool To Run Britain? I published in good faith and I am sorry that it was so wrong. France's trial followed the London Metropolitan Police's Operation Elveden, an ongoing investigation into alleged payments to police and officials in exchange for information. The Private Eye report noted that despite this The Sun's parent organisation was "considering disciplinary actions" against France whilst at the same time it was also preparing to bring a case to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal against the London Metropolitan Police Service for its actions relating to him and two other journalists. [219][220], The U.S. Sun is an online version of the U.K. Sun for the United States. [111] Blair, who had radically altered his party's image and policies, noting the influence the paper could have over its readers' political thinking, had courted it (and Murdoch) for some time by granting exclusive interviews and writing columns. [71] Gay Church of England clergymen were described in one headline in November 1987 as "Pulpit poofs". News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. It later proved to have no basis in fact. "[193], When Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas told BBC Radio 5 Live that an unnamed journalist had revealed his HIV status to his parents before he had had the opportunity to do so himself. The Sun was a New York newspaper published from 1833 until 1950. It was published by Ronald Weintraub and edited by Seth Lipsky, and ceased publication on September 30, 2008. [175] A few hours before the issue was published, the head of PR at the newspaper said the reputed end of Page 3 had been "speculation" only. The newspaper made frequent scathing attacks on what the paper called the "loony left" element within the Labour Party[55] and on institutions supposedly controlled by it. Although The Sun was outspoken against the racism directed at Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty on television reality show Celebrity Big Brother during 2007, the paper captioned a picture on its website, from a Bollywood-themed pop video by Hilary Duff, "Hilary PoppaDuff",[118] a very similar insult to that directed at Shetty. All five arrested were held on suspicion of corruption. The Sun led with a headline "Now we've all been screwed by the cabinet" with a reference to Black Wednesday on 17 September 1992, and the exposure a few months earlier of an extra-marital affair in which Cabinet Minister David Mellor was involved. The paper cited unnamed sources, claiming "cops are throwing a ring of steel around tonight's live episode of Coronation Street over fears it has been targeted by Al-Qaeda. [45][47], One of the paper's best known front pages, published on 4 May 1982, commemorated the torpedoing of the Argentine ship the General Belgrano by running the story under the headline "GOTCHA". [73] He also recalls MacKenzie headlining a January 1989 story about the first same-sex kiss on the BBC television soap opera EastEnders as "EastBenders",[73] describing the kiss between Colin Russell and Guido Smith as "a homosexual love scene between yuppie poofs ... when millions of children were watching".
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