I was told the reading age of the Sun (and similar 'rags') was seven, and that if we wanted to do well in our English exams we would have to read the Guardian or The Herald because it's a higher reading age.
The Sun was first published as a broadsheet on 15 September 1964 – with a logo featuring a glowing orange disc. It was launched by owners IPC (International Press Corporation) to replace the failing Daily Herald. Intended to add a readership of 'social radicals' to the Herald's 'political radicals', the paper did not live up to IPC's expectations. Circulation continued to decline and it was soon losing even more money than the Herald had done.
No love for the Sun but I have to say that my award for stupidest readers goes to the Daily Mail.
The sheer fact that it can put out one "lets frighten the middle classes" story after another and still get away with it scares me senseless. How gullible must its readership be.
heres a good example from the Mail Online : "St Paul's protest camp 'is a magnet for crime', court hears as anti-capitalists pledge to hold two-week Christmas party"
It's a newspaper for people who find Britain's finest newspaper (The Mail) too "intellectual". The Sun do have top political guru Trevor Kavanagh don't forget.
Ally Ross on TV
Steve Howard on Sport
Jane Moore bitching about other women
Clarkson being.....Clarkson
Lorraine Kelly, whose column admittedly looks as if it's been written by a 12-year-old
The only fly in the ointment is Frankie Boyle (enough said)
I use to enjoy Kelvin McKenzie's column before he absconded to the Mail, it came close to being libellous on many occasions and all the better for it (and he was of course banned from the Scottish Sun for making racist remarks about the Scots)
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The Inqiury wouldn't affect my decision to buy it because I don't care.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_(newspaper)
The sheer fact that it can put out one "lets frighten the middle classes" story after another and still get away with it scares me senseless. How gullible must its readership be.
heres a good example from the Mail Online : "St Paul's protest camp 'is a magnet for crime', court hears as anti-capitalists pledge to hold two-week Christmas party"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2076020/Occupy-Christmas-St-Pauls-protesters-leave-symbolic-tent.html
Unfortunately, whilst this may be true, the article in question gives absolutely no evidence to justify using that quote as a headline.
And the responses to it on-line all say everything about its readership "Shoot em all" being one good example.
I always buy both.
Ally Ross on TV
Steve Howard on Sport
Jane Moore bitching about other women
Clarkson being.....Clarkson
Lorraine Kelly, whose column admittedly looks as if it's been written by a 12-year-old
The only fly in the ointment is Frankie Boyle (enough said)
I use to enjoy Kelvin McKenzie's column before he absconded to the Mail, it came close to being libellous on many occasions and all the better for it (and he was of course banned from the Scottish Sun for making racist remarks about the Scots)
And any person I see buying it or reading it gets a look of contempt they deserve off me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9076086/Fears-over-future-of-Sun-newspaper-after-more-arrests.html