The Sun

Don't we all love chips, greasy artery filling fatty chips full to the brim with the stuff that'll kill us eventually, and if not it'll make us so fat that we'll want to kill ourselves after just 1 more portion of their delectable taste, their almost orgasmic feeling in your mouth. Well you know what all chip shops need right, other than potatoes, suasages, fish and curry...paper. Well it's not a wonder that when I last purchased chips from my local chip shop I saw three letters at the top of the page (near the date and page number) that struck me as somewhat a reason for the specific paper to be produced. "SUN"...finally a use for this waste of ink and ...

The Sun (a.k.a. the “old Currant Bun”) is the most popular tabloid newspaper in this country, and it is proud to consider itself the voice of the ‘common man’. Indeed, it boasts of being “Britain’s most influential newspaper”. It’s reporting style is cheeky, cheerful, and notoriously short on news. Even more notoriously, the third page always boasts a pretty young lady, in her late teens or early twenties, baring her breasts for the delectation of the reader. I don’t have the statistics, but I presume the readership is largely male. Historically I’ve never thought much of The Sun, but I did read it daily in the ...

3 years ago I would never have even picked up a copy of the Sun. Tabloid trash, I would have screamed! I used to digest broadsheets such as the Times, the Guardian AND the Independent as I commuted to school on 2 trains, and it was thoroughly recommended to read broadsheets as part of my Business A-level. However one sweet day I got my high grades and my university place, and I suddenly got bored of the heavy monotonous tone of news reportage that I found with my regular, The Times. And one day I picked up a copy of the Sun and have never gone back. So why did I do it? Well the primary reason was that the Sun was 30p and the Times 35p and that day I ...