I had thought of The Sun as being pretty much equal in terms of the gutter press, but having read this piece of unmitigated shite this morning it strikes me that The Sun no longer resides in the gutter, but has fallen head first into the sewer, if not the cesspit, that is nationalistic, jingoistic journalism. Thanks BondWoman for bringing my attention to Mark Mardell’s thoughts on this piece of journalistic crap, pointedly entitled “A Done Deal” in which he says this:-
The Sun breathes fire in today’s editorial and threatens to keep up its campaign until the next general election. As it warns that Britain’s existence as an independent sovereign state has been extinguished, I presume it will abandon what it must believe has become the worthless charade of covering Westminster politics, and I look forward to welcoming its political staff as they are all shipped out to Brussels to report on the real action.
The Sun’s editorial, if that is what it can be called is just the sort of crap that attracts the more undesirable elements of the Nationalists in its promotion of the fear of the other; its constant drip, drip, drip of we don’t want anyone who is not one of us here, we don’t want to be part of a wider Europe etc. etc.. “The Sun Says” has become the most unacceptable face of editorial pages in recent years, and to name it “The Sun Says” is, in my humble opinion, quite, quite laughable; it should be renamed “Rupert Murdoch Says”!
As I pointed out in a previous post:-
…my message is: forget all of the petty squabbling, who is slagging off who etc. etc., it is time everyone got their acts together and started pulling in the same direction rather than in a dozen different directions. Instead of sitting around and whingeing about the stupid things that define our lives, get out there and do something about the important things that SHOULD define our lives… …it is this sort of rubbish that attracts the racists, bigots, and hypocrites that want to withdraw from the wider world, the sort of people who give the fanatics the fodder with which they feed their hatred. It is this sort of people who turn Nationalism into Insularity.
