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
Liverpool Echo Alastair Machray, who has previously edited the Welsh edition of the "Daily Post". In 1879 the "Liverpool Echo" was published as a cheaper sister paper to the "Liverpool Daily Post". From its inception until 1917 the newspaper cost a halfpenny. It is now 80p Monday to Friday, £1.20 on Saturday and 70p on Sunday. The limited company expanded internationally and in 1985 was restructured as Trinity Holdings Plc. The two original newspapers had just previously been re-launched in tabloid format. A special Sunday edition of the "Echo" was published on 16 April 1989, for reporting on the previous day's Hillsborough