Hillsborough disaster their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a 'classic smear'. After "The Sun"s report, the newspaper was boycotted by most newsagents in Liverpool and many readers cancelled their orders and refused to buy it from newsagents; and from then afterwards many in Liverpool refer to "The Sun" newspaper as "The Scum". Some even refuse to say the name or spell it as "The S*n." The Hillsborough Justice Campaign organised a less successful national boycott that had some impact on the paper's sales nationally. MacKenzie explained his actions in 1993. Talking to a House of Commons National
Hillsborough disaster wider causes of the incident. Although the then-editor Boris Johnson did not write this piece, journalist Simon Heffer alleged he had written the first draft of the article "at Mr Johnson's request", and offered to apologise for its publication after it attracted "a furore in the city [of Liverpool]". Johnson apologised at the time of the article, travelling to Liverpool to do so, and again following the publication of the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel in 2012; however, Johnson's apology was rejected by Margaret Aspinall, chairperson of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, whose son James, 18, died in the