The Sun Industry

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Owned by?
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation
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First Produced?
1964- started as a broadsheet then was bought in '69 by Murdoch and changed to tabloid
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When was The Sun on Sunday first introduced?
2012
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Daily Readership?
2.3 million (UK)
4.1 million (worldwide)
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Circulation?
1.3 million
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Biggest selling newspapers?
The Sun on Sunday, The Sunday Times

Used to be News of the World before the phone hack scandal
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Page 3 - first and last?
First: 1970 - Samantha Fox (aged 16)
Last: 2015 - Less circulation among women, now just lingerie, not topless
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Why is it controversial?
Xenophobia, anti-immigration, extreme right-wing ideas, racism, sexism, sensationalism, sex-focussed, downright fabrication.
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What was the Hillsborough disaster, and The Sun's coverage of it?
A human crush during a football game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, on the 15th April 1989. 96 people died, 766 were injured

The Sun posed the Liverpool fans as attacking and abusing rescue workers, urinating on bodies etc. Awful representation. ManyLiverpidlians now boycott The Sun, and nickname it 'The Scum'.
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The Sun's view on migration?
No migration, illegal or legal. Foreignors = bad. Xenophobia, 'Keep Britain British'
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Political affiliations?
Conservative, however not truly loyal, switch often
Started Labour
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