NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Sun

The Sun is a tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world, standing at 3,126,866 copies daily in October 2007 and with a daily readership of 7,909,000 in H1 2007. It reaches 2.9 million readers in the ABC1 demographic and 5.0 million in the C2DE demographic, compared to the 1.5 and 0.1 million respectively of its upmarket stablemate The Times. It is published by News Group Newspapers of News International, itself a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. ^[1]^[2] Image File history File links Mergefrom. ... The Irish Sun is a tabloid newspaper sold in Ireland with a special edition for Northern Ireland. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... HRH Prince Harry of Wales Henry Charles Albert David His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Wales (Henry Charles Albert David Mountbatten-Windsor) (born September 15, 1984), nicknamed Prince Harry, is a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Elizabeth II. Harry is third in the line of... National Socialism redirects here. ... Joseph and Mary with baby Jesus, at the first Christmas Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus. ... This article is about the newspaper size. ... News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Rebekah Wade (born May 27, 1968 in Cheshire, England) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... Look up Populism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Wapping Old Stairs, one of many points of access to the foreshore in the area. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Sol redirects here. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the newspaper size. ... A newspapers circulation is the number of copies it distributes on an average day, although circulation rates are decreasing. ... The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. ... The NRS social grades are a system of demographic classification used in the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see Times. ... News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... News International is a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdochs News Corporation. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... 1211 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where News Corporation is based News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS, NYSE: NWSa, ASX: , LSE: NCRA) is an American media conglomerate company and the third worlds largest. ...

History

The Sun before Murdoch

The Sun was launched by IPC under editor Sydney Jacobson on September 15, 1964 as a replacement for the Daily Herald, of which Mirror Group had acquired 51 per cent ownership when it took over Odhams Press in 1961. The Herald, 49 per cent owned by the Trades Union Congress and until recently tied to supporting official Labour Party policy, was selling more than 1.4 million copies a day at the time of the takeover. But its ageing working-class owners sold their shares to allow the relaunch of the Herald as The Sun. IPC Media the UKs leading consumer magazine publisher, with an unrivalled portfolio of brands, selling over 350 million copies each year. ... Sydney Jacobson, Baron Jacobson, (26 October 1908 - 13 September 1988) was a British journalist and political commentator. ... is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... The Daily Herald was a London newspaper. ... Odhams Press was a British publishing firm. ... Image:TradeUnionsCongress20050108 CopyrightKaihsuTai. ... The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...

It was a broadsheet with a logo featuring an orange disc. The relaunched paper did not live up to IPC's expectations, however. Circulation continued to decline, and it was soon losing even more money than the Herald had lost. In 1969, IPC decided to throw in the towel. Robert Maxwell offered to take it off their hands and retain its commitment to the Labour party, but said there would be redundancies, especially among the printers. Rupert Murdoch had already bought the News of the World, a sensationalist Sunday newspaper, the previous year, and he was in the position of seeing the printing presses in the basement of the old Bouverie Street building sit idle for six days in the week. Seizing the opportunity to increase his presence on Fleet Street, he made an agreement with the print unions, promising fewer redundancies if he got the paper. He assured IPC that he would publish a "straightforward, honest newspaper" which would continue to support Labour. IPC, under pressure from the unions, rejected Maxwell's offer, and Murdoch bought the paper for £800,000, to be paid in instalments. ^[3] He would later remark: "I am constantly amazed at the ease with which I entered British newspapers." ^[4] Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... For other uses, see Logo (disambiguation). ... IPC Media the UKs leading consumer magazine publisher, with an unrivalled portfolio of brands, selling over 350 million copies each year. ... For other persons named Robert Maxwell, see Robert Maxwell (disambiguation). ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ...

The early Murdoch years

Murdoch appointed Larry Lamb as his editor. Lamb was scathing in his opinion of the Mirror, the paper where he had recently been senior sub-editor. He shared Murdoch's view that the measure of a paper's quality was best measured by its sales, and he regarded the Mirror as overstaffed, and primarily aimed at an aging readership. Lamb hastily recruited a staff of about 125 reporters, who were mostly selected for their availability rather than their ability. ^[5] This was about a quarter of what the Mirror currently employed, and Murdoch had to draft in staff on loan from his Australian papers. Murdoch immediately relaunched The Sun as a tabloid, and ran it as a sister paper to the News of the World ^[6]. The Sun used the same printing presses, and the two papers were now managed together at senior executive levels. Sir Albert Lamb, commonly known as Larry Lamb (July 15, 1929 â€“ May 19, 2000) was a British newspaper editor. ... This article is about the newspaper size. ...

The Sun was launched as a rival to The Daily Mirror, which it copied in several ways. It was the same size and its masthead had the name in white on a red rectangle of the same colour as the Daily Mirror. The front page had the same general style and it could easily be picked up by mistake. Sports news was on the back pages in both. The text was written for a slightly lower reading age. It rapidly overtook the Mirror in sales to become the fastest growing daily.^[7] Inside the Mirror's "Lively Letters" was matched by "Liveliest Letters", and the comic strip "Garth" by a comic strip "Scarth" featuring a frequently naked woman. Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. ... Garth was a comic strip in the Daily Mirror newspaper from July 24, 1943, to December 14, 1993. ...

Later strips included Striker, set in the world of football; Axa, about a barbarian woman in a post-apocalyptic world; and George and Lynne, a domestic gag-a-day strip about a couple and their friends and neighbours. Needless to say these strips feature their fair share of naked ladies. Striker is a comic strip (and for a time, it was a magazine) in the British tabloid The Sun, created by Pete Nash. ... Apocalyptic fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction (or, in some cases, the more general category speculative fiction) that is concerned with the end of civilization through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ...

From the start, sex was used as an important element in marketing the paper. While the Daily Mirror frequently featured a pin-up photograph of a young woman in bikini or lingerie, ostensibly as a fashion item, The Sun dispensed with the excuses; it featured what were openly glamour photographs of women, with less clothes than their Mirror counterparts. After a year, this would eventually become the regular topless picture known as the Page Three Girl. Features such as 'Do Men Still Want To Marry A Virgin?' and 'The Way into a Woman's Bed' began to appear. Serialisations of erotic books became a staple; the publication of extracts from The Sensuous Woman, at a time when copies of the book were being seized by Customs, produced a scandal and a gratifying amount of free publicity.^[8] A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. ... Glamour photography is the photographing of a model (usually female), in a way that is intended to be erotic, yet not pornographic. ... A Page Three girl is a topless female model whose photographs are published on the third page of The Sun newspaper. ... The Sensuous Woman is book by Joan Garrity. ...

Despite the industrial relations of the 1970s - the so-called "Spanish practices" of the print unions - The Sun was very profitable, enabling Murdoch to expand to the United States from 1973. The terms Spanish practices or old Spanish customs are UK terms that refer to irregular or restrictive practices in workers interests, e. ... For the song by James Blunt, see 1973 (song). ...

Politically, The Sun in the early Murdoch years remained nominally Labour, although in the two 1974 elections, the paper's attitude to Labour was "agnostic", according to Roy Greenslade in Press Gang (2003). The then editor, Larry Lamb, was originally from a Labour background, with a socialist upbringing. Deputy editor Bernard Shrimsley was a middle-class uncommitted Conservative. Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... Roy Greenslade is Professor of Journalism at Londonâ€™s City University and has been a media commentator since 1992, most notably for The Guardian. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Conservative Party, officially though less commonly known as the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a political party in the United Kingdom. ...

The Sun changed track and caused a small stir by endorsing Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 general election. Political endorsement is the action of publicly declaring ones personal or groups support of a candidate for elected office. ... Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (nÃ©e Roberts; born 13 October 1925) served as British Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 until 1990, being the first and only woman to hold either post. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

Thatcherite king of the tabloids

In the meantime, The Sun had overtaken the Daily Mirror in circulation by 1978, partly thanks to extensive advertising on ITV, voiced by actor Christopher Timothy. From 1981, The Sun used Bingo as a promotional tool to increase its circulation still further. For other uses, see ITV (disambiguation). ... Christopher Timothy (left) as Dr. Brendan Mac McGuire with Diane Keen in Doctors Christopher Timothy (born October 14, 1940) is a Welsh-born actress best known for playing James Herriot in the television series All Creatures Great and Small. ...

In 1986 Murdoch shut down the Bouverie Street premises of The Sun and News of the World, and moved operations to the new Wapping complex, blocking union activity and greatly reducing the number of staff employed to print the papers; a year-long picket by sacked workers was eventually defeated (see Wapping dispute). Wapping Old Stairs, one of many points of access to the foreshore in the area. ... Employees of the BBC form a picket line during a strike in May 2005. ... The Wapping dispute started on 24 January 1986 when some 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after months of protracted negotiation with their employers, News International (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, chaired by Rupert Murdoch). ...

The Sun was a very strong supporter of Margaret Thatcher and her policies, and maintained its support for the Conservatives when Thatcher was succeeded by John Major in 1990. On the day of the 1992 election, its front-page headline was "If [Labour leader] Neil Kinnock wins today, will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights", and two days later The Sun was so convinced of its contributions to the Conservative victory that it declared "It's The Sun Wot Won It". For other persons named John Major, see John Major (disambiguation). ... This article is about the year. ... Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock, PC (born 28 March 1942) is a British politician. ...

The Sun goes Labour again

The Sun switched support to Labour in March 1997 when the General Election saw Labour leader Tony Blair become Prime Minister. Since then it has supported Labour in each of the subsequent three elections, despite criticising some of their policies. Some say this was down to the paper's general disillusionment with the Conservative party since Black Wednesday. Others have argued that the newspaper changed its stance as it knew there was little chance of the Conservative Party winning the 1997 General Election, and therefore afterwards would not be seen as having backed a loser. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born May 6, 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the Labour Party, and Member of Parliament for the constituency... In British politics and economics, Black Wednesday refers to 16 September 1992 when the Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound from currency fix, the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they were unable to keep Sterling above its agreed lower limit when currency markets believed the policy was...

The Sun today

The Sun relies on stories about the entertainment industry, gossip concerning the British monarchy, and sports, as well as news and politics for its content, with many items revolving around celebrities. The entertainment industry consists of a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. ... This article is about the monarchy of the United Kingdom, one of sixteen that share a common monarch; for information about this constitutional relationship, see Commonwealth realm; for information on the reigning monarch, see Elizabeth II. For information about other Commonwealth realm monarchies, as well as other relevant articles, see... For other uses, see Celebrity (disambiguation). ...

In addition to writers covering celebrities-about-town and the latest soap opera storylines, the paper is always on the lookout for celebrities in trouble or scandal. Pictures are preferred and The Sun often uses pictures taken by paparazzi. The first TIME magazine cover devoted to soap operas, dated January 12, 1976. ... Paparazzo, Stephen. ...

Its serious news stories frequently focus on themes of immigration, security scandals, domestic abuse and paedophiles. The Page 3 pin-up girl is invariably a girl between the ages of 18-28, posing topless. Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else. ... Not to be confused with Ephebophilia. ... A Page Three girl is a topless female model whose photographs are published on the third page of The Sun newspaper. ... Nudity is a common subject both in fine arts and popular culture. ...

The current editor is Rebekah Wade, the first female editor in the paper's history. Rebekah Wade (born May 27, 1968 in Cheshire, England) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. ...

The Sun has attempted to create a term for itself in Cockney rhyming slang as The Currant Bun.^[9] Cockney rhyming slang is a form of English slang which originated in the East End of London. ...

In a 2007 meeting with the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications who were investigating media ownership and the news, Murdoch stated that he acts as a "traditional proprietor"; exercising editorial control on major issues such as which political party to back in a general election or policy on Europe.^[10] This article is about the British House of Lords. ...

Controversy

National controversy

Page 3 girls

The Sun under Murdoch has been a consistent subject of controversy and scandal news. From the early 1970s, both feminists and many cultural conservatives objected to the Page 3 girls, which they saw as pornographic and misogynistic. In 2006 when the paper ran a story on a website to track down missing sex offenders, they used the headline Pervhunt.Com, despite the actual website having a different name. However a Popbitch.com member bought the rights to the Pervhunt.com name and redirected it to the Sun's Page 3 Rookies webpage, containing Page 3 models of ages 18-20. [1] A Page Three girl is a topless female model whose photographs are published on the third page of The Sun newspaper. ... Feminists redirects here. ... A Page Three girl is a topless female model whose photographs are published on the third page of The Sun newspaper. ... Porn redirects here. ... In Eva Prima Pandora, by Jean Cousin (Louvre Museum), Eve, the equivalent of Pandora embodies Original Sin Misogyny (pronounced ) is hatred or strong prejudice against women; an antonym of philogyny. ... Popbitch is a weekly UK-based celebrity and pop music newsletter and associated website dating from the early 2000s. ...

The comic strip AXA was first published on The Sun's Page 3. According to Enrique Badia Romero, The Sun was looking for an "erotic science-fiction strip". Romero had been working on AXA on the side for a long time and saw an opportunity to get it published. The cover of the first issue of the Eclipse Comics title. ... Enrique Badia Romero (who signs his work simply Romero) is a Spanish comic strip artist, best known to English-speaking audiences for his work on Modesty Blaise. ...

Sickest website campaign

The Sun launched a campaign in January 2007 asking their readers to report to their investigative department the "sickest websites" they find on the internet. This follows a recent exposé The Sun uncovered about websites dealing in human organs.^[11]

Populism

After The Sun had abandoned Labour by 1979 for Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives, these critics were joined by left-wingers objecting to the paper's allegedly 'right-wing' populist political line, which, according to criticism, was jingoistic, racist and homophobic^{[citation needed]}. Manifestations Slavery Racial profiling Lynching Hate speech Hate crime Genocide (examples) Ethnocide Ethnic cleansing Pogrom Race war Religious persecution Blood libel Paternalism Police brutality Movements Policies Discriminatory Race / Religion / Sex segregation Apartheid Redlining Internment Ethnocracy Anti-discriminatory Emancipation Civil rights Desegregation Integration Equal opportunity Counter-discriminatory Affirmative action Racial quota... A protest by The Westboro Baptist Church, a group identified by the Anti-Defamation League as virulently homophobic. ...

Racism

The Sun Website's Showbiz column, then edited by Victoria Newton, was recently criticised, as a picture of Hilary Duff having a Bollywood theme to her new video was captioned "Hilary PoppaDuff". [2] The hastily-changed caption was caught by the Holy Moly and VickyWatch [3] websites. This came despite the Sun being outspoken against the allegations of racism on Celebrity Big Brother earlier in the year, where a similar insult was used. Victoria Newton (born 9 March 1961 in London) is an English journalist and showbiz correspondent. ... Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, producer, fashion designer, and spokesperson. ... Bollywood (Hindi: , Urdu: ) is the informal term popularly used for Mumbai-based Hindi-language film industry in India. ... Roasting papadums over an open flame on a stove, one of several methods of cooking them. ... Celebrity Big Brother 2007 was the fifth series of the United Kingdom reality television series Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off of Big Brother. ...

Sensationalism

More generally, the Murdoch Sun has been criticised since its launch for its sensationalism, which on occasion has led it to publish stories on the most spurious evidence, and for its focus on celebrities for its news and feature coverage. It has regularly been accused of appealing to the lowest common denominator and dumbing down public discourse. In a skit on the Benny Hill Show, two photographers from London's "mainstream" papers are showing taking photographs of a beautiful model in the regular manner, while two other photographers, identified by their press cards as from The Mirror and The Sun are shown photographing her upskirt. In mathematics, the lowest common denominator or least common denominator (abbreviated LCD) is the least common multiple of the denominators of a set of vulgar fractions. ... Dumbing down is viewed either as a pejorative term for a perceived over-simplification of, amongst other things, education, news and television, or as a statement of truth about real cultural trends in education and culture. ...

Miners' strike

The newspaper supported the government in the miners' strike of 1985-85 and there were incidents where staff threatened to resign over what they saw as deliberate misinformation. To this day, the paper's circulation in the old mining areas of Britain remains much smaller than in the country as a whole^{[citation needed]}. The miners strike of 1984-5 was a major piece of industrial action affecting the British coal industry. ...

Jingoism

The paper published the headline "GOTCHA" when, during the Falklands War, the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was torpedoed, although that headline was dropped when it was known that the ship had sunk and the extent of Argentinian casualties became clear. Support of British troops — referred to as "Our lads" — in action is invariably unequivocal. The Sun's ultra-patriotism has, however, outgrown the racism some claim it came close to embracing in the 1970s and 1980s — the nadir was its coverage of the Broadwater Farm riot of 1985. It has been as forceful on asylum-seekers as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail. On July 4, 2003 it printed a front page story under the headline "Swan Bake" claiming that asylum seekers were slaughtering and eating swans. It later emerged that the story had no factual basis but The Sun defiantly published a follow up story headlined "Now they're after our fish!". Following a Press Complaints Commission adjudication a "clarification" was eventually printed - on page 41.^[12] A copy of The Sun from the 1982 sinking of the ARA General Belgrano — one of the most famous headlines ever. ... A copy of The Sun from the 1982 sinking of the ARA General Belgrano — one of the most famous headlines ever. ... This article is about a British tabloid. ... Belligerents Argentina United Kingdom Commanders President Leopoldo Galtieri Vice-Admiral Juan Lombardo Brigadier-General Ernesto Crespo Brigade-General Mario MenÃ©ndez Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Admiral Sir John Fieldhouse Rear-Admiral John â€œSandyâ€ Woodward Major-General Jeremy Moore Casualties and losses 649 killed 1,068 wounded 11,313 taken prisoner... Argentina is a country in southern South America, situated between the Andes in the west and the southern Atlantic Ocean in the east. ... For the Argentine politician and military leader, see Manuel Belgrano. ... The Broadwater Farm riot was a riot that occurred in and around the Broadwater Farm area of Tottenham London on 6 October 1985. ... This article is about the year. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For other uses, see Daily Express (disambiguation). ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. ... is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Press Complaints Commission is a British organisation that has regulated printed newspapers and magazines since 1990. ...

Hillsborough

The worst moment journalistically for The Sun's sensationalism was its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster in Sheffield, where 96 people died and 730 were injured. Under a banner of the headline "THE TRUTH" the paper claimed that some fans picked the pockets of crush victims, that others urinated upon members of the emergency services as they tried to assist and that some even assaulted a Police Constable "whilst he was administering the kiss of life to a patient" (19 April 1989). Despite the bold headline - the work of Kelvin MacKenzie- the story was based on allegations which were either made by unnamed and unattributable sources, or were hearsay accounts of what named individuals had said - a fact made clear to MacKenzie by Harry Arnold, the reporter who had written it. Although the disaster had occurred before TV cameras and a mass of sports reporters, no evidence was ever produced to substantiate the allegations made in the story ^[13]. It caused outrage amongst the people of Liverpool and the paper still sells poorly in the city to this day. It is unavailable in many parts of the city, as many newsagents refuse to stock it. It was revealed in a documentary called "Alexei Sayle's Liverpool" that many people in the city won't even take the newspaper for free, and those who do result in destroying the paper, either by burning it or ripping it up. The Memorial at Hillsborough. ... Image File history File links Hillsborough_disaster_Sun. ... Image File history File links Hillsborough_disaster_Sun. ... The Memorial at Hillsborough. ... For other uses, see Sheffield (disambiguation). ... For the painter see John Constable. ... Artificial respiration is a technique for providing air for a person who is not breathing on their own but whose heart is still beating. ... is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952, Anfield, Liverpool) is an English comedian, actor and author. ...

On January 2005 The Sun's managing editor Graham Dudman claimed their coverage of the Hillsborough disaster was "the worst mistake in their history", he further added, "What we did was a terrible mistake. It was a terrible, insensitive, horrible article, with a dreadful headline; but what we'd also say is: we have apologised for it, and the entire senior team here now is completely different from the team that put the paper out in 1989." Although Dudman made this claim/apology in January 2005 he rehired Kelvin MacKenzie (the editor responsible for their biggest mistake in history) as a columnist in May 2006. Furthermore, on January 11, 2007, MacKenzie went on record as a panellist on BBC1's Question Time as saying the apology he made after the disaster was a hollow one, forced upon him by the paper's proprietor, Rupert Murdoch. MacKenzie further claimed he was not sorry "for telling the truth" but he admitted that he did not know for sure whether some Liverpool fans urinated on the police, or robbed victims.^[14] Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (born October 22, 1946) is a British media executive and former newspaper editor. ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... For the British television programme, see Question Time (TV series). ...

Freddie Starr "ate my hamster"

On 13 March 1986 The Sun carried as it main headline: "FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER". According to the text of the story, the British comedian Freddie Starr had been staying at the home of Vince McCaffrey and his 23-year old girlfriend Lea La Salle in Birchwood, Cheshire when the incident took place. Starr was claimed to have returned home from a performance at a Manchester nightclub in the small hours of the morning and demanded that Lea La Salle make him a sandwich. When she refused, he went into the kitchen and put her pet hamster Supersonic between two slices of bread and proceeded to eat it. Image File history File links Freddiehamster. ... Image File history File links Freddiehamster. ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 72nd day of the year (73rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Freddie Starr as seen on the cover of his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped. ... Statistics Population: 11,395 (2001) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SJ647911 Administration District: Warrington Shire county: Cheshire Region: North West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Cheshire Historic county: Lancashire Services Police force: Cheshire Ambulance service: North West Post office and telephone Post town: Warrington... For other uses, see Cheshire (disambiguation). ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ...

Freddie Starr gives his side of the story in his 2001 autobiography Unwrapped. He says that the only time that he ever stayed at Vince McCaffrey's house was in 1979 and that the incident was a complete fabrication. Starr writes in the book: "I have never eaten or even nibbled a live hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, mouse, shrew, vole or any other small mammal." The man behind the hamster story was the British publicist Max Clifford. When asked in a television interview with Esther Rantzen some years later whether Starr really had eaten a hamster, his reply was "Of course not." Clifford was unapologetic, insisting that the story had given a huge boost to Starr's career. In May 2006 the BBC nominated "FREDDIE STARR ATE MY HAMSTER" as one of the top British newspaper headlines of all time. ^[15] Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Maxwell Frank Clifford [1] (born April 6, 1943 in Kingston upon Thames), is an English publicist. ... Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born on 22 June 1940 ) (age 66)) is a British journalist and television presenter who is best known for her long stint in Thats Life! and her anti paedophile activism activities as founder of the charity ChildLine. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...

The headline was later used in part as the title for the Commodore 64 computer game Rockstar Ate My Hamster. Rockstar Ate My Hamster is a management strategy computer game developed by Codemasters in 1988 and originally released on their full-price Gold label for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga and Atari ST. The game was written by Colin Jones, later to become known as author/publisher...

Mental health

On September 22, 2003 the newspaper misjudged the public mood surrounding mental health. When the former boxer Frank Bruno was admitted to hospital, early editions read Bonkers Bruno Locked Up across its front page. The reaction to the very popular Bruno being labelled "Bonkers" was so strong and immediate that by its second edition the headline had become: Sad Bruno In Mental Home.^[16] is the 265th day of the year (266th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Franklin Roy Bruno (born November 16, 1961) is a British former boxer whose career highlight was winning the WBC Heavyweight championship in 1995. ...

Homosexuality

In the early 1980s, the paper was excoriating the Greater London Council, led by Ken Livingstone, giving financial support to various gay rights groups. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the paper campaigned against "pulpit poofs", as it described gay Church of England clergy, and in 1987 published a front-page article falsely accusing the pop musician Elton John of having sexual relationships with rent boys and indulging in under-age sex. A furious John successfully sued the paper for libel and damages. The paper settled out of court for a million pounds and printed a full, front page apology titled "Sorry Elton". During the 1980s the paper carried a number of articles related to the supposed sexual orientation of a number of famous people, including one particular article written by Piers Morgan titled 'The Poofs of Pop', where the paper gave its verdict on whether endless male pop stars were gay or not.^[17]. Arms of the Greater London Council The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. ... Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is the outgoing Mayor of London, a post he has held from its creation in 2000 until 2008. ... This article is about the year 1987. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Male prostitution is the sale of sexual services (prostitution) by a male. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ... Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born 30 March 1965 in Newick, East Sussex) is a former editor of British tabloid newspapers the News of the World (1994â€“1995) and the Daily Mirror (1995â€“2004). ...

When Peter Mandelson was "outed" by Matthew Parris (a gay former columnist on The Sun) on Newsnight in November 1998, the paper asked whether Britain was governed by a "gay mafia", as there were then several openly gay members of the British cabinet. The newspaper apologised the following day. The Sun's U-turn on its views of homosexuality dispels the notion that their editorial position on the subject in prior years was based on a religious pretext, rather it was strictly sensationalist journalism for commercial purposes. This would explain the present tone in which their entertainment sections now hype and promote rather than ridicule or pour scorn over TV programmes that are based on alternative lifestyles. This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ... Matthew Parris (born August 7, 1949 in Johannesburg) is a journalist and former Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ... Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22:40 and 23:20 on weekdays on BBC Two. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

In 2005, Chelsea player Ashley Cole was subject of a 'gay orgy' story in The Sun and The News of the World. After a lengthy court appeal by Cole, the remarks published by both papers were taken back and a healthy compensation fee was payed to Mr. Cole for causing such an ordeal. Subsequently, some football fans have created anti- Cole homosexual taunting terrace chants that are often sung when Chelsea play the opposition's fans in question.

Politics

The Sun prides itself on its patriotic, pro-British stance. It is strongly opposed to the surrendering of British sovereignty to the EU and has, in the past, referred to foreign leaders who it deemed hostile to the UK in unflattering, and arguably borderline racist terms; such as dubbing former President Jacques Chirac of France "le Worm"; When France declared itself against the Iraq war the editorial said "The French President is an unscrupulous, conniving, preening, lying, cheating hypocrite". The Sun has traditionally taken a very strong stance on political issues, traditionally favouring the Conservative party, most famously in the 1992 General Election, where, following a close campaign and aggressive pro-Conservative editorials from The Sun, the paper famously declared It's The Sun Wot Won It after the Conservative victory. Following the election of Tony Blair, however, it changed its stance to support New Labour. This followed an attempt by Tony Blair to "court" the influence of The Sun by granting exclusive interviews and writing columns for the paper. In exchange for Murdochs support, Blair agreed not to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. ^[18] Under the current Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, the paper's stance has been less clear, with the paper being very critical of many of Brown's policies and more generally supportive of the policies of Conservative leader, David Cameron. â€œChiracâ€ redirects here. ... The European Exchange Rate Mechanism, ERM, was a system introduced by the European Community in March 1979, as part of the European Monetary System (EMS), to reduce exchange rate variability and achieve monetary stability in Europe, in preparation for Economic and Monetary Union and the introduction of a single currency...

More than any other issue, The Sun is passionately opposed to the European Union, taking every opportunity to thrash policy that promotes further European integration, often using Napoleonic or WW2 era fighting language.[4]

In June 2008 The Sun's stance moved from propaganda, to appointing its own candidates in elections, when editor Rebekah Wade and proprietor Rupert Murdoch requested that columnist Kelvin MacKenzie stand against former MP David Davis in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election. Davis had resigned his seat in protest after MPs narrowly approved increasing the limit for keeping prisoners suspected of terrorist offences without trial from 28 to 42 days. MacKenzie stated "The Sun is very, very hostile to David Davis because of his 28 day stance and The Sun has always been very up for 42 days and perhaps even 420 days.".^[19]^[20] Rebekah Wade (born May 27, 1968 in Cheshire, England) is a British journalist and newspaper editor. ... Keith Rupert Murdoch AC, KCSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian born United States citizen who is a global media executive and is the controlling shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation, based in New York. ... Kelvin Calder MacKenzie (born October 22, 1946) is a British media executive and former newspaper editor. ... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a parliament. ... For similarly named Welsh Coservative politician, see David Davies (Welsh politician). ...

International controversy

British tabloids are popularly perceived abroad as offensive and tasteless. Here are some notable examples of The Sun's more controversial headlines:

"Urs hole" British tabloids and English football fans joined their efforts in harassing Swiss referee Urs Meier after the English lost in the Euro 2004 quarter-final where Meier disallowed an English goal, which would have won the match, for a foul on the goalkeeper. English media and football fans were not happy with this decision, blaming Meier, calling him "Urs hole" and "idiot ref". After his personal details were published by British tabloid newspapers, Meier received more than 16,000 abusive e-mails, and also death threats. Reporters of The Sun even travelled to Switzerland and placed an English flag at his home. As a result, he was placed under police protection. At the airport, Meier was picked from the plane and had to hide for seven days, and could not meet his children for four days. Ironically The Sun later criticised Chelsea FC manager José Mourinho for intimidating referee Anders Frisk in a Champions League match against FC Barcelona. Urs Meier (born January 22, 1959 in WÃ¼renlos) is a retired Swiss football referee, a grocer by trade that owns a brand of household appliances. ... The 2004 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly called Euro 2004, was held in Portugal between June 12 and July 4, 2004. ... Chelsea Football Club (also known as the Blues, previously also known as the Pensioners), founded in 1905, is a Premier League football team that plays at Stamford Bridge football ground in west London. ... JosÃ© MÃ¡rio dos Santos FÃ©lix Mourinho, GOIH (pronounced Mour-in-yo) (born 26 January 1963 in SetÃºbal) is a Portuguese football manager. ... Anders Frisk (born 18 February 1963 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is an insurance agent by trade and a former football referee. ... UEFA Champions League, which replaced the European Champions Cup, is a seasonal club football competition organised by UEFA since 1992 for the most successful football clubs in Europe. ... Futbol Club Barcelona (Spanish IPA: , Catalan IPA: ), known familiarly as BarÃ§a (Spanish IPA: , Catalan IPA: ), is a sports club based in Barcelona, Spain. ...

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"I'm Big in the Bumdestag" Headline of 17 April 2006 about a paparazzo picture taken of German chancellor Angela Merkel's rear during a change of clothing while on holiday in Italy. Additional puns were "the cheeky chancellor" and "the Iron Frau", and "much improved bottom line" in regard to economy. is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (IPA: ) (born Angela Dorothea Kasner, 17 July 1954, in Hamburg, Germany), is the Chancellor of Germany. ...

"Racist in Peace" Headline of 19 June 2007 reporting the death of British comedian Bernard Manning, who had died the previous day aged 76. The headline mocked Manning's controversial jokes which were often offensive towards black people. is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 â€“ 18 June 2007) was an English stand-up comedian. ... (Redirected from 18 June) June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ...

"Ship Ship Hooray" Headline of 14 January 2004 reporting the death of British serial killer Dr Harold Shipman, who had been found hanged the previous day in his prison cell. The article urged readers to feel good about Shipman's death, as in taking his own life he had saved the British taxpayer the cost of keeping him locked up for years. A diagram of Shipman's suicide was also printed in the article, urging fellow inmate and murderer Roy Whiting to follow Shipman's example. [5] is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Harold Frederick Fred Shipman (January 14, 1946 â€“ January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. ... (Redirected from 13 January) January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Roy Whiting Roy Whiting was born in Horsham, West Sussex, on 26 January 1959. ...

Editors

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Scottish edition

There is also a Scottish edition of The Sun launched in 1987, known as The Scottish Sun. Based in Glasgow, the paper sells for just 25p. The Scottish Sun is often referred to as "a downmarket, English-based tabloid" by the Record. It duplicates much of the content of the English edition but with additional coverage of Scottish news and sport. In the early 1990s, the Scottish edition became notable as the first major newspaper to declare support for the pro-independence Scottish National Party. At the time the paper elsewhere continued to support the Conservatives, who were then becoming an increasingly marginalised force in Scotland. This stance, however, became somewhat problematic following The Sun's adoption of support for Labour elsewhere in the UK, given that the SNP were seen as Labour's main challengers and fiercest rivals in Scotland. The Scottish edition was forced to employ some convoluted logic to justify its eventual withdrawal of support for the SNP in favour of pro-union Labour. The Scottish National Party (SNP) (Scottish Gaelic: is a centre-left, Social democratic political party which campaigns for Scottish independence. ...

However, the Scottish Sun had performed a major U-turn by the time of the Scottish Parliament election, 2007, in which its front page featured a hangman's noose in the shape of an SNP logo, stating "Vote SNP today and you put Scotland's head in the noose" [6] This drew heavy criticism, even from those who opposed the SNP. The composition of the Scottish Parliament following the 2007 election. ...

Polski Sun

In June 2008, the Sun became the first national newspaper to produce a Polish language version [7]. Six editions were produced for Poland's group matches in the Euro 2008 football tournament. Polish (jÄ™zyk polski, polszczyzna) is the official language of Poland. ... The 2008 European Football Championship (EURO 2008) will take place in Austria and Switzerland. ... â€œSoccerâ€ redirects here. ...

Related newspapers

Other newspapers published by other companies within the UK with "tabloid values" are the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Star, and the Daily Sport. Of these, only the Mirror supports the Labour Party. The others are Conservative, although The Sun has supported New Labour from 1996. See List of newspapers in the United Kingdom for a comparison of The Sun with other newspapers. For other uses, see Daily Express (disambiguation). ... The Daily Mail is a British newspaper, currently published in a tabloid format. ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a popular British tabloid daily newspaper. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Daily Sport is a tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom by Sport Newspapers. ... // Traditionally newspapers could be split into quality, serious-minded newspapers (usually referred to as broadsheets due to their large size) and tabloid, less serious newspapers. ...

Note: the sister Sunday paper of The Sun (also published by News Group Newspapers) is the News of the World – the Sunday Sun is an unrelated tabloid newspaper, published in Newcastle upon Tyne. The News of the World is a British tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. ... The Sunday Sun is a regional Sunday Newspaper. ... This article is about a city in the United Kingdom. ...

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References

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See also

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Contents

History

The Sun before Murdoch

The early Murdoch years

Thatcherite king of the tabloids

The Sun goes Labour again

The Sun today

Controversy

National controversy

Page 3 girls

Sickest website campaign

Populism

Racism

Sensationalism

Miners' strike

Jingoism

Hillsborough

Freddie Starr "ate my hamster"

Mental health

Homosexuality

Politics

International controversy

Editors

Scottish edition

Polski Sun

Related newspapers

References

Further reading

See also

External links

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History GA_googleFillSlot("encyclopedia_square");

The Sun before Murdoch

The early Murdoch years

Thatcherite king of the tabloids

The Sun goes Labour again

The Sun today

Controversy

National controversy

Page 3 girls

Sickest website campaign

Populism

Racism

Sensationalism

Miners' strike

Jingoism

Hillsborough

Freddie Starr "ate my hamster"

Mental health

Homosexuality

Politics

International controversy

Editors

Scottish edition

Polski Sun

Related newspapers

References

Further reading

See also

External links

History