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Post by Redz on Dec 4, 2006 10:09:00 GMT
FURIOUS Liverpool supporters enraged by former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie's latest comments vowed to continue their boycott of the newspaper. During Saturday's away match against Wigan, outraged Liverpool FC fans held aloft banners and placards protesting against the tabloid's infamous reporting of the Hillsborough stadium tragedy. Signs brandished in the crowd attacked MacKenzie and others read simply: Don't buy the Sun. It comes after the Daily Post revealed former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie had publicly said he was not sorry for the infamous front page story of the newspaper after the football disaster in which 96 people lost their lives. Under the headline The Truth, the newspaper printed false claims in its article which sparked one of the most successful commercial boycotts ever seen in the UK. And during comments at a business lunch in Newcastle MacKenzie told more than 100 guests he had only apologised to the people of Liverpool because the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch had ordered him to. He also maintained that the Sun had printed "the truth" by reporting accusations that Liverpool fans had been seen urinating on the dead. The latest comments go against the newspaper's televised apology to the families of the Hillsborough victims in 2004 when the paper said it was "truly sorry" for "the most terrible mistake in its history".
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