Reply #8: The Sun & The News Of The World Are The Closest British Media Gets To Lowest Common Denominator Faux [View All]

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I mean, just look at their front pages:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/

Apart from being a newspaper, the other difference between Faux and the Sun/TNOTW is that the girls they use to sell it go topless.

It's been said that whichever party the Sun backs during a British national election wins.

From 1997 when Tony Blair 1st became Prime Minister:

It's the Sun wot's switched sides to back Blair
Murdoch turns out the lights on tabloid's support for the Tories
Roy Greenslade
Tuesday 18 March 1997 10.55 GMT

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Conservative Central Office played down the importance of the Sun 's endorsement. But only five years ago the paper boasted 'It Was The Sun Wot Won It' after John Major's victory. The Sun was responsible for a vitriolic, personalised campaign against Labour's former leader Neil Kinnock, culminating in a front page that superimposed his head on a lightbulb with the headline: 'If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights'.

Sun readers were important to Mr Major in 1992, comprising more than a fifth of the electorate and more than a third of the don't knows.

Polling evidence suggests their main characteristic compared with Mirror readers is that they are less interested in politics and less committed to one party.

The paper's change of allegiance is made more striking by the fact that owner Rupert Murdoch has always taken a direct part in the decision-making at every election.

The Sun became an enthusiastic supporter of the Conservatives when Margaret Thatcher was elected leader in 1975. Attracted by her anti-union stance, it then threw its weight behind her three successive election victories.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1997/mar/18/past.roygreenslade