My song, Never Buy the Sun, pays tribute to the scousers who started their own boycott after the Hillsborough stadium disaster
For the past 22 years, people in Liverpool have boycotted the Sun newspaper because of the lies that it printed about the behaviour of Liverpool FC fans at the Hillsborough disaster. Ninety-six people were crushed to death at a football match at Hillsborough in Sheffield on 15 April 1989. The Sun ran a front page story that accused Liverpool supporters of variously robbing and urinating on the dead bodies of the victims as they were laid along the touchline. The reports were totally unfounded. Since then, many people in Liverpool have refused to buy the Sun on principle.
As I listened to the unfolding reports of the phone-hacking story last week, it occurred to me that the scousers had been right about News International all along.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/13/billy-bragg-never-buy-the-sun
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