12-09-2012, 17:12
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cf.mega poser
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Re: Hillsborough Report
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Originally Posted by Russ
Someone just said on twitter that it's probably too much to ask The Sun to have their headline tomorrow saying 'The REAL Truth'.
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Kelvin MacKenzie, editor of the Sun at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, has offered the people of Liverpool his "profuse apologies" for his front page story, headlined "The Truth", which falsely alleged that drunken fans had urinated on police and pickpocketed the dead.
MacKenzie said after the publication of the Hillsborough independent panel report on Wednesday about the 1989 disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died, that he had discovered to his horror that it would have been "far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth".
His first unequivocal apology in the 23 years since the notorious front page, which led to a mass boycott of the paper in Merseyside, came after the Hillsborough report concluded that the evidence showed conclusively that the allegations against Liverpool fans on which the Sun splash was based were unfounded.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...-apologies-sun
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