‘The Sun is the most disliked newspaper’ – Poll Result & Comment

‘It’s The Sun Wot Won It’

No surprises there then, as the dirty little tabloid scoops 62% of your votes.

Whether it’s the Murdoch factor, the forced pun in every headline, or general crimes against literacy; there are just so many reasons to detest The Sun.

At its very best it’s cheeky, but at its very worst it’s an appallingly manipulative and borderline fascist hate-rag – and its offices are crammed with some of the most dislikable sports writers in the country.

‘Writers’ is perhaps flattering, because most of the columns read like transcripts of shouty conversations that have been had in a pub, and are all riddled with whatever agenda the journalist happens to be carrying at the time. Rob Beasley, Shaun Custis? The embodiments of the old-fashioned football hack that substitutes ‘BIG OPINIONS’ and ‘EXCLUSIVES’ for craft in their work.

The Sun’s readership figures are just a shocking indictment of us as a nation. A national embarrassment.