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First Posted: 20/02/2012 10:58 Updated: 20/02/2012 11:01

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An anti-Sun On Sunday campaign has been launched on Twitter over News International's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.

Livepool fans tweeted reasons not to buy Rupert Murdoch's new newspaper which will hit the streets for the first time this weekend.

Using the hashtag #dontbuythesunanyday fans suggested Sunday's Carling Cup final, in which Liverpool will play Cardiff City, could become the focus of the protest.

The Sun newspaper is famously boycotted by millions of Liverpool fans for its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 supporters died.

The campaign was led by @thisisanfield which is an independent Liverpool Football Club fan website. It tweeted:


This Is Anfield
Do not buy The Sun on Sunday, launching on the day we play in Carling Cup Final. Spread the word to all friends. Don't let them buy it.

Others waded into the deabte:


matthew ashcroft
Murdoch has no morals, the News of the World had no morals, The S*n has no morals, the Sunday S*n will have no morals.


charlie bennett
DontBuyTheSunANYDAY I would rather pull out all my toenails with tweezers without pain relief


Freya Govus
okay, just don't. for the sake of humanity.


Gary Fox
NOTW to reopen this weekend as Sun on Sunday! In other news Peter Sutcliffe to be released after changing his name to Peter Smith!”


David Landon Cole
Could you explain to me how Sun on Sunday is not just a shameless rebrand of the News of the World?


james brown
heard they are already searching the crime files for grieving families to hack .. I mean interview.

But Murdoch won support from others, including MP Louise Mensch, who tweeted:


Louise Mensch
I welcome the launch of the Sun on Sunday. UK needs a thriving, competitive and diverse free press, tabloids included.


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An anti-Sun On Sunday campaign has been launched on Twitter over News International's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster. Livepool fans tweeted reasons not to buy Rupert Murdoch's new newspaper ...
An anti-Sun On Sunday campaign has been launched on Twitter over News International's coverage of the Hillsborough disaster. Livepool fans tweeted reasons not to buy Rupert Murdoch's new newspaper ...
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Dan DEAN
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22:33 on 20/02/2012
I take it that all the Anti Murdoch Newspaper Brigade, the ones who think he is the lowest of the low...dont watch his Television Channels !!, .....i take it that all those people in Liverpool who refuse to buy The Sun after Hillsbrough,and i am not being judgemental, i understand your feelings............i take it dont watch your football team on Sky Sports weather it be in a pub or at home...or is that diffrent???????
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jeffslops
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21:38 on 20/02/2012
Left wimg newspapers are just as bad and lets face it, the lefties in our society have not done the UK any good, infact they have almost destroyed it. I reckon this is labour against Conservative, nothing more and nothing less than trying to gain a political advantage.
NOW I will welcome the flack from the left????
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pantreac
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19:58 on 20/02/2012
To run a pub in this country you have to be a 'fit and proper person' how is it then that Murdoch can run a national newspaper in this country? The same applies to the owner of the Evening Standard whose owner is just a thug, brawling and physically attacking another person on a television chat show. We must question why the people in authority allow these type of people to run our national newspapers!
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rash8909
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19:29 on 20/02/2012
Supermarkets are selling toilet paper a lot cheaper.
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Chris1000
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18:47 on 20/02/2012
Rubbish always floats to the surface.
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chrsanders
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18:28 on 20/02/2012
Murdoch flies in Thursday, announces on Friday that a new paper will be launched and today announces the launch next Sunday. It is impossible to set up a newspaper in a week! This has been planned all along as a diversionary tactic if more soft brown substance hit the rotating object - which it has! Pardon my cynicism.
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rchrdsn388
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19:00 on 20/02/2012
Yeah well there was a web site set up called The Sun on Sunday as soon as NOTW closed so what makes you think they saying it was set up in a week
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ferme le sun
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16:25 on 20/02/2012
Whats in a name-Carp on Sunday and Carp every other day-Murdoch can stick it up his Moon.
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chrsanders
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18:29 on 20/02/2012
Perhaps Mr. Rupert might like to shove the Sun where the sun does not shine.
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gogsrule
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14:36 on 20/02/2012
In view of the past, has a fit and proper person test to produce a newspaper been applied to those involved?
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13:41 on 20/02/2012
Looks like the Sun is setting before it is rising.
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fishyfishy
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13:30 on 20/02/2012
Sun on Sunday, I thought they said it was going to snow?
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vinniedog
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13:20 on 20/02/2012
So the chavs delight is to be 7 days a week. Does anyone ever admit to reading the sun ????
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Chris1000
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18:48 on 20/02/2012
Nobody READS the Sun, they just LOOK at it.
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SwissRon
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19:54 on 20/02/2012
Lots of pictures of totty, in various states of undress. Very upmarket.
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iggy0635
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13:12 on 20/02/2012
Sorry did all of these people think that this was not going to happen
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