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DAILY from a Falkland dead soldiers widow were gained by asking secretaries n the office 'How would you feel if your husband had just been awarded a postumous VC'?)
'Heard the one about the thick Paddy mother in law with big tits who read the Sun every day?...
But the paper is not separate from Fleet Street. It fills a legitimate corner of the bourgeois armoury. Other papers have imitated it. The Mail and the Telegraph do the job on a different group of readers a different way.
But nobody takes the poison of the ruling class unrefined, raw and vicious, with such effect into the ranks of the working class.
The millions of Sun readers are not all moronic caricatures. It is likely a large proportion of them rubbish the paper themselves. But they take in the poison nevertheless.
Monday's edition was run of the mill. No big set piece attacks on the left in sight. There were page leads on Cliff Richard whistling at Sue Barker and 'Gran Gets a Sex Op Shock' (a story which boiled down to the unsurprising news that a woman of 40 was pregnant.)
A new Super Sun game 'Your Future at the Flick of a Coin' in which the Sun predicted your fortune according to five consecutive flips of a coin. (Really deep analysis here five heads means 'Act Now. You are the master of the situation' - Five tails: 'You are in a stubborn mood and others will not cooperate').
You could find any of this drivel in numerous magazines and other daily papers.
The problem is however that once one newspaper is singled out as an abberation - something apart from the rest ot Fleet Street - then it acts as a decoy to draw away criticism from being directed against the whole structure of the press.
The other papers in Fleet Street take it in turns to sneer at the Sun, while the Sun cheerfully shovels in the money.
But the paper at the bottom of the gutter provides a kind of social service for the rest. lt allows them to claim they are not the bottom of the heap.
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