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PresentationThe Sun of today

The Sun is a daily british newspaper In Scotland : The Scottish Sun In Ireland : The Irish Sun In Poland : The Polish Sun (in June 2008)

A wide circulation The 10th largest circulation in the world The largest circulation in the United Kingdom In July 2011 : 2,821,618 copies

PresentationHistory of The Sun

First publication On the 15th of September of 1964 In order to replace the Daily Herald

Change of owner In 1969, it was bought by the tycoon R. Murdoch Linked to the newspaper: News of the World The Sun on sunday ?

ContentsNewspaper policy

A tabloid R. Murdoch's position : The quality of a

newspaper does not depend on its content but on the amount of its readers

A tabloid : Tabloid journalism tends to emphasize topics such as sensational crime stories, astrology, gossip columns about the personal lives of celebrities and sports stars, and junk food news. Such journalism is commonly associated with tabloid sized newspapers.

ContentsScandal

Women and the Page 3 The Page 3 : Stephanie Rhan was the first topless

girl to appear on the 17th of Novembre 1970. It then began a regular fixture even though it was controversial.

2003: Rebekah Wade became editor and some people thought it would be dropped...

Today : For 35 years, around 9 000 women have been on the daily Page 3.

ContentsScandals

Sports: the Hillborough disaster The Hillborough disaster : a human crush that

occurred on 15 April 1989 in live at Hillsborough. The cover of The Sun : The headline "THE

TRUTH", and 3 sub-headlines: "Some fans picked pockets of victims", "Some fans urinated on the brave cops" and "Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life".

The aftermaths : Apologies on 7 July 2004 of The Sun, saying that it had "committed the most terrible mistake in its history" by publishing it.

ContentsScandals

News and racism... Against French and German : During the 1980s

and 1990s, the nationalities were routinely described in copy and headlines as "frogs", "krauts" or "hun". The nickname of Chirac was « the Worm »

2003 : accused of racism by the Government over its criticisms of what it perceived as the "open door" policy on immigration. According to the newspaper, it was not racist to suggest that a tide of unchecked illegal immigrants was increasing the risk of terrorist attacks and infectious diseases.

ContentsNo political line

Non existent political line A labour background : In continuation to the Daily

Herald a support of the Labour. A support of Margaret Tatcher : On 3 May 1979,

it ran the unequivocal front page headline, « Vote Tory this time ».

Back to the Labour : The Sun switched support to Labour on 18 March 1997: « The sun backs Blair ».

Back to the Conservative : On the 30th of September the headline « Labour's lost it », The Sun shows that it change its point of view.

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