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The Sun's coverage of yesterday's death in SA

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Sunnywithshowers · 15/02/2013 13:51

Interesting (and necessary) article about the coverage of the death of Reeva Steenkamp.

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/15/reeva-steenkamp-body-on-front-page

Sex sells - even when the obliging lovely woman concerned is dead. Gah.

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Sunnywithshowers · 15/02/2013 13:54

I've just noticed that AKissIsNotAContract has started a thread about this in AIBU too.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1684747-To-think-the-Sun-has-reached-an-all-time-low-with-its-front-page-today

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LineRunner · 15/02/2013 23:12

I saw this on display in Asda and wanted to fucking rip it up.

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Darkesteyes · 15/02/2013 23:56

Line Runner i felt (feel) exactly the same.
And i think a lot of people do. While shopping in my local Sainburys this evening i noticed a massive pile of copies of the Sun. Yet the Guardian had nearly sold out. Fucking bastards at the Sun.

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SomethingOnce · 16/02/2013 01:16

I really wanted to read a long thread on FWR about this, examining in minute detail all the ways in which that cover was so fucking wrong, because some of the comments on the AIBU thread showed how much people just don't get it.

The Sun. The paper that hinted it might be wavering of the subject of Page 3 a matter of days ago.

Bastards.

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Cornflowerdreams · 16/02/2013 09:12

Just started an opening post on this topic as I was utterly disgusted by the way the Sun treated this story.

There's no ethics, no moral values when it comes to sales for this kind of newspapers. They just reinforce a wide sector of the culture we live in. Totally disrespectful in their treatment of women, even when a woman dies in violent circumstances.

Sexualising death might sell, but it's wrong, so wrong, that this newspaper should be take to court for it.

They're just an awful mafia with so much power no even politicians can/want to do anything about it.

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namechangeguy · 16/02/2013 10:55

Is anybody here aware that the Sun has been largely boycotted by an entire city in the UK since 1989, when it printed horrendous lies about a large group of people from that city? Lies that it only admitted to in the last 12 months, due to unceasing campaigning for the truth from families of people who were killed.

It is an appalling newspaper which will stop to any depth to sell papers. It lies, it intimidates and it influences at the very highest levels of society. Until people stop buying it, it will continue to do so. People do not buy it where I live.