The Sun

About the Sun

“ The Sun is a newspaper published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. As a broadsheet, it was found in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner.” (BBC News, 2017)

Contents of The Sun

Having a first look on the home page of the website www.thesun.co.uk of the newspaper of The Sun, we can see on the top side the different categories of news that are provided, such as football, sports, TV and showbiz, money, technology, traveling motors, etc. There is the option of registering and creating an account that can give you the opportunity to comment on the articles of the newspaper and receive notifications for exclusive offers, promotion and products. By this way anyone can express their own opinion about the articles of the newspaper.

Scrolling further down, we can notice that the contents of the newspaper are mostly about famous people and their daily life. One of the reports that we can see on the picture above is about the Queen and the Prince Charles arriving for church in Sandringham without Andrew. They are focusing on details that are not very important by gossiping and looking deeply into showbiz. Scrolling further down we can see from the picture bellow that the newspaper focusses also on unusual facts that we cannot see very often such as the story of a modern family of a transgender man giving birth to a baby with sperm donated by a transgender woman. Summarizing we can say that

Credibility of The Sun

The Sun can be considered, based on story selection and political affiliation, that favours the right or conservative. “They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes.” (mediabiasfactcheck.com, n/a) Because of the contents of the newspaper such as celebrity gossiping, events and conservative misleading political publications with a right-wing bias. Taking of consideration all the above, we can conclude that The Sun is not a credible source because of its political preferences that mislead.