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Related: About this forumWhat did you do with your copy of The Scum?
For the benefit of our US friends, the right-wing Rupert Murdoch-owned trash tabloid 'The Sun' was delivered free to 26 million households last Thursday as a special "World Cup, England" edition.
I looked through it and it was as bad as I remembered it. I heard that Tony Parsons had taken the Murdoch Shilling and is spouting pro-Cameron bile. The column of his I saw was an example of lame after-6-pints-pub-bore jingoism. Parsons gathers great comfort from his pile of money that eases his conscience.
The rag went in the compost and hopefully will poison the eventual weeds, just as it's poisoned our society.
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)At the risk of producing poisonous paper products in the future.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Do they still have that soft porn on page three?
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)e.g.
http://nomorepage3.org/
One could, however, say that ALL of the Sun is objectionable and unsuitable for family reading!
MADem
(135,425 posts)pervs on park benches with that page facing out and little kids with their parents in the park. It just seemed rude to me, and the pics were of the cheesiest, stupidest "Bennie Hill girl with her top off" type.
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)....did not feature topless girls on page 3.
The regular editions of the Sun still have that crap though.
MADem
(135,425 posts)It really is sexist seventies stupidity--so insulting to the intelligence of everyone, the models and the readers. I'd use a word that ends in --illation but I don't even want to snark. It's not even that it's shocking at this point, it's disrespectful and blatantly objectifying to the point it is almost comedic in an unfunny way. The "Oh no you did NOT just go there" type of unfunny.
Guess this is what happens when an old dog refuses to learn a new trick or two...and it IS possible for an old dog to do this; hell, I'm and old dog and I can keep up with the times; at least be aware of changing mores and sentiments!
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)I can see the day when the Currant Bun finally gets rid of page 3 girls. Mind you, it'll still be shite even without that cheap, tawdry and not even vaguely sexy nonsense.
MADem
(135,425 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,149 posts)and I'm not in Liverpool either. Looks like Murdoch is still powerful enough to be able to rope in the 3 major party leaders for publicity stunts without actually following up with his promise. OK, I didn't want it, but they didn't know that.
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)Fortunately, no animals were harmed in the process.
The Skin