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for The Sun

Rating Summary based on 134 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		24
  • 4 Stars
    		37
  • 3 Stars
    		14
  • 2 Stars
    		25
  • 1 Star
    		34

Detailed rating

  • Quality of features
  • Quality of journalism
  • Quantity of advertising
  • Value for money
  		• 2.8
  		• 2.5
  		• 3.1
  		• 3.0
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  • 146 of 146 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 torr

    Member since 29/08/2002

    Reviews written: 347

    2 Stars The Sun also surprises 28/05/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Successful, professional, knows its market

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Brash, trivial, scurrilous, simplistic, self-congratulatory

    It is, I think, a good idea to confront one's prejudices from time to time, and it would be hard to be more prejudiced than I am against The Sun newspaper. I hardly ever see The Sun in the usual way of things, let alone read it, yet if you asked me to describe it I would have no difficulty in trotting out at least a dozen derogatory adjectives, the most polite of which you will see listed as "Disadvantages" in the summary points above. The fact that The Sun is part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire only serves to redouble my bias against it. The trouble is that I'm such a sad case of bleeding ... more
  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 thedevilinme

    Member since 13/05/2008

    Reviews written: 1475

    3 Stars The Sun no longer shines out of Murdochs a**! Review with images 09/07/2011

    Advantages Advantages Peoples rag

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Lies and waffle?

    The decision to shut down the News of the World was the right one. They had gone too far. They were drowning in their search for exclusives and prepared to do everything to get them. They had pi**ed off too many important people. They can't compete with the loose cannon the internet is on that. They only stopped hacking voice mail because the phone companies closed the loophole, and if they hadn't they would be still doing it. It was a cheap and a lazy thing for them to do. No lessons were ever learnt. Proper investigative journalism is expensive and that's what was killing the paper. This is ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    showbiz0

    5 Stars Are You Brave Enough To Admit You Love It? 19/05/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It's funny, stupid, filled with celebrity gossip, agony aunt and beautiful women.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages People look down on those who read it

    The Sun newspaper is described as the "people's paper" and as the number 1 newspaper in the country, it came as quite a shock when i realised so many people look down on you for reading it. After a considerable period of time debating why this is, i came to the conclusion that people are either just ashamed to admit that they like it or they're total prudes. I agree with people's opinions that it isn't the most educational reading available and i also agree that the front page story's are usually related to some celebrity scandal rather than political or world news. But to be fair, don't we ... more
  • 55 of 55 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 the_mad_cabbie

    Member since 06/12/2000

    Reviews written: 678

    1 Star World Exclusive Mad Cabbie LOVES The Sun 10/09/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages See opinion

    Disadvantages Disadvantages See opinion

    ~ ~ Before you all start wondering whether I have been eating strange food that has adversely affected my thought processes, (I have, haggis) or have joined some strange Rupert Murdoch worshipping sect while on holiday in Scotland (I haven't), let me immediately qualify my title for this opinion. The title is a half-truth, something that the Sun appears to be an authority on, if their headlines and editorial is anything to go by. I do indeed buy the Sun newspaper (sorry for offending you by calling it that) at the outrageous price of 45 pence, (Irish, inclusive of VAT) each and every Saturday ... more
  • 33 of 33 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    art1954

    4 Stars The Sun Best for Big Brother 26/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good read

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    I think it was 1968 or 1969 that the Sun was first published and at the time it was about the only paper that was doing the page 3 girls. It has now become the nations best selling paper and that more than anything tells you how the Empire has fallen,so what is in The Sun... Well your front page usually a girl on the front to entice us shallow males to buy it with a title like Madonna gets them out for the Band..Then its much the same throughout the paper,taking interesting stories how like a couple have collected 3,000 items of Noddy memorabilia or Sarah Cox telling us she didnt swear on her ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    setimerenptah

    1 Star Don't Sell Your Soul to Rupert Murdoch 12/07/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Be ignorant

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Lies, lack of news, poor quality writing.

    At the risk of being typecast as a ranter, after my McDonald's op (Capitalist Clown Wants Your Money), I have decided the Sun newspaper will be my next victim. This paper is undoubtedly the worst rag you could possibly buy. It is aimed at xenophobic, thoughtless morons who seem to be intent on ignoring anything of any importance that happens on the grounds that it is too depressing to read about. There is no attempt to provide genuine news, politics or world affairs, and intelligent editorials are spurned in favour of sex scandals and television programmes. How can they pretend that the ... more
  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    leahslad

    5 Stars An Easy Read so lay off 08/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Brilliant in paper extras and easy to read style

    Disadvantages Disadvantages A lack of some detail in stories but that is also a benefit

    This is the paper that dictates the country's opinions without a doubt. But just how good is it? REPORTING OF MAIN EVENTS: The main stories reported in the sun are always hyped. I think that goes without saying really. It's what the 'Tabloid' press is famous for - and you dont get more famous than the sun. You will find some excellent writing with superb skill though. To be able to write what they write requires some ability as you are always treading a fine line with the 'libel' case. They do always cover the main stories, although their selection of front line news can be questionable at ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    elvis7

    4 Stars Exclusive report - Sun quite good shocker. 01/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Sport, showbiz, humour

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Dimmed-down reporting, sexual references for children

    What can one say about The Sun? It may be simpler to ask what people haven't said about The Sun. Britain's most popular paper (by sales) seems to be the most unpopular with everyone else. "It's just a tabloid rag with semi-naked women and no real quality journalism". You can picture these people with their Financial Times spread out over the table. They're too classy to read The Sun. "Certainly not!" they'd reply if they were asked. But who is that I spy in the corner of the newsagents? He thinks no-one can see him. Suddenly, he lurches forward, grabs a copy of The Sun and tucks it inside his ... more
  • 20 of 20 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SkyscraperFanClub

    1 Star Appealing To The Lowest Common Denominator 31/08/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good sport soverage if you're a football junkie.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Reactionary, hypocritical, sexist, poorly written, manipulative, insulting, trivial, petty, narrow minded, xenophobic, trashy, sleazy, marginalises minority interests, encourages the cult of the celebrity, bad layout and design, sensationalist, scaremonge

    Why do people read newspapers? Newspapers, one would expect, are supposed to be a source of news - i.e. information pertinent to the wider world in which we live. Broadly speaking, we expect several basic items from a newspaper – reporting of important events domestically, internationally or locally; analysis of current events within relevant contexts; and editorial perspectives and opinions. That, basically is what a newspaper should contain. So why do people read them? We read them primarily to become informed so that we might form opinions, thoughts, ideas and political stances ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stoffy

    1 Star Bad News 04/09/2001
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages none

    Disadvantages Disadvantages homophobic, racist and bad quality journalism

    Don't get me wrong. I'm all for free speech, even if it leaves a nasty taste in the mouth of the majority. What worries me is when this free speech starts to encroach upon free thinking. Then we have a problem. Despite being the most successful and widely read newspaper, with a circulation of around 4 milion copies a day, 'The Sun' has a hideously bad quality of journalism. The newsworthiness of the 'scandal' is beyond belief, whilst there is apparently no sport other than football. Also bizarrely, the problem pages are written in exactly the same style, with the same key words being repeated ... more
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