What do we reckon? Guess it depends on how vigorously FSF pursues this.
On 2 July, fans of over 70 football clubs unanimously passed a motion to extend the boycott of the newspaper in Liverpool to the rest of the country. The Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF), representing fan groups including Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea, will mount huge pressure on shops across England and Wales to stop stocking the tabloid.
The decades-long Liverpool boycott has been incredibly successful. Author Chris Horrie estimates that the campaign cost News International approximately £15m a month (in 1989 prices) for the last 28 years. Now, the FSF will seek to extend that boycott nationwide.
Roy Bentham, who tabled the motion, told The Canary:
We’re gonna take [the boycott] wherever we can, to every nook and cranny, in every town and every village around, in England and Wales
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Never buy that shit rag excuse of a ‘news paper’ quite deliberately for over 20 years now; so sort of have my own boycott going on. The amount of people they have tried to ruin for their own gain over the years is staggering.
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It’ll be the excuse Murdoch needs to close it down
The Sun losses exceed £60m as ad slump and hacking charges take toll
Total revenues fell from £456m to £446m after price increase failed to offset decline in print advertising and rising legal costs
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I wonder, do any print newspapers actually make any money whatsoever.
To force the Sun out of business would be quite a feat…come on people, you know you can do it!
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They still do, although not as much. The Guardian still makes more from its printed editions than online. As much as I dislike the Sun and Mail, I think that time would be better spent persuading people not to buy them rather than encouraging newsagents not to stock them. The way the newstrade works is that if you are a newsagent you agree to stock all daily titles. I remember having a meeting with Sainsburys a few years back when they were saying that they wanted to excluded certain titles from certain stores where sales were low (they base their products on sales per square foot of supermarket). It actually is a more potent form of protest to persuade people not to buy because the Sun would still have to print and distribute newspapers that then wouldnt be bought, costing them more money in the long run.
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Most places in Liverpool will not stock The Sun. It never used to be the case. The ban was voluntary, shops still carried it and people like Jackanory on TSW would claim that circulation numbers there were great.
That has shifted in the past few years to a position where shops don’t carry it. For me, that’s far better. Some might ask why the Sun isn’t being stocked. I imagine the answers will be quite interesting.
I would suggest that developments here supercede some of those prior news trade agreements.
There are so few “free” online newspapers these days it makes it hard to read anything else. I can basically choose the Guardian or the Fail as I don’t have to pay for them (yeah like pub lunches I guess)
While the Sun & Fail stay online & free they will continue to print click bait and earn enough to keep their Intern Journos doing what the owner wants even if the overall revenues continue to decline.
While I do detest both rags the more worrying trend is that “The Press” is declining in revenue and RoI for investors, I would hate to see a world where the only news comes from Sky CNN and the Beeb.
And no I haven’t read the Sun since Samantha Fox & Linda Lusardi retired
Some bright spark (probably someone short and hairy) should develop a shite filter. Similar to a spam filter but basically just blocks anything with a whiff of Murdoch or Dacre.
Perhaps you shouldn’t be such a cheapskate and pay for your paper of choice 
OR somedays you don’t want a particular article to appear on your Web Linked devices…
There is an organisation called the National Federation of Retail Newsagents. The NW branch may well have meet with the local wholesalers and come to an agreement about not stocking The Sun. The thing for me is if it isnt there, people cant choce not to buy it, if you get my drift. The Sun can make a case for poor sales in certain areas if their product isnt stocked. If it is and people still dont buy it, that is a stronger message. But better still would be a Government who realises that it is not healthy to have vast ownership of the media by a certain individual and does something about it!
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