Liverpool council backs a ban on newsagents selling copies of The Sun over the paper's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.
A campaign calling on newsagents to stop selling copies of The Sun in Liverpool has been backed by the council some 27 years after the paper's controversial Hillsborough coverage
A campaign calling on newsagents to stop selling copies of The Sun in Liverpool has been backed by the city council.
A motion, put forward by a Labour councillor, received unanimous support and was approved without debate.
The newspaper is already widely shunned on Merseyside for its coverage in the wake of the Hillsborough football disaster and its now discredited ?The Truth? front page.
It is sold in very few places, but the motion went one step further and called for a city-wide boycott.
The city?s mayor even said he would ban the paper completely if he could.
But critics described the move as ?stretching toward censorship? and akin to rules under a dictatorship.
Put forward at Liverpool Town Hall on Wednesday night, the motion condemned the paper for printing ?blatant lies? wrongly blaming fans for the 1989 disaster, in which 96 people died.
But free speech campaigner and former Lib Dem MP John Hemming said: ?I?m not really a fan of The Sun but I do wonder if in 100 years they will still be criticising Sun employees for something they did 120 years ago.?
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A campaign calling on newsagents to stop selling copies of The Sun in Liverpool has been backed by the council some 27 years after the paper's controversial Hillsborough coverage
A campaign calling on newsagents to stop selling copies of The Sun in Liverpool has been backed by the city council.
A motion, put forward by a Labour councillor, received unanimous support and was approved without debate.
The newspaper is already widely shunned on Merseyside for its coverage in the wake of the Hillsborough football disaster and its now discredited ?The Truth? front page.
It is sold in very few places, but the motion went one step further and called for a city-wide boycott.
The city?s mayor even said he would ban the paper completely if he could.
But critics described the move as ?stretching toward censorship? and akin to rules under a dictatorship.
Put forward at Liverpool Town Hall on Wednesday night, the motion condemned the paper for printing ?blatant lies? wrongly blaming fans for the 1989 disaster, in which 96 people died.
But free speech campaigner and former Lib Dem MP John Hemming said: ?I?m not really a fan of The Sun but I do wonder if in 100 years they will still be criticising Sun employees for something they did 120 years ago.?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-coverage.html
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