Boycott of The Sun newspaper

Witness History: Archive 2011 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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In 1989, the people of Liverpool began boycotting Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper over its reporting of the Hillsborough football disaster. The Sun later apologised, but sales in the city have never recovered.Witness speaks to a Liverpudlian involved in the boycott, and to a local radio journalist who remembers the city's anger.PHOTO: Press Association