The Sun labels Liverpool FC ban on its reporters ‘bad for fans and bad for football’
The Sun has responded to Liverpool FC‘s ban of its reporters over the paper’s coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, calling it “bad for fans and bad for football”
On Thursday (9 February) the football club withdrew accreditation for the newspaper’s journalists, preventing them from attending matches, visiting the club’s training facility or interviewing players and coaching staff.
The ban relates to the paper’s coverage of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, in which The Sun wrongly placed the blame on Liverpool fans, falsely claiming the fans stole from the dead and urinated on corpses under the headline ‘The Truth’.
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Source: The Drum
