Hillsborough Disaster - Historical Textual Analysis

The text article to the left is in fact the highly controversial newspaper released the day after Hillsborough, The Sun which reported that the police were abused in their attempts to help those in trouble and dying during the disaster.  This newspaper was actually boycotted by newsagents all over Liverpool at the time to show respect towards those involved in the disaster but also in the strong, now-correct view that this is clearly not what happened and the blame for the entire event was shifted onto the innocent people at the match when actually as known now the police were to blame for not officiating the crowd and numbers in the stadium correctly.

The bold, strong language used for the bullet points of the article really make the ideas appear as if fact and that it is disgraceful that the 'brave cops' were beaten and bullied for trying to help friends and family of in trouble. 'Some fans urinated on the brave cops' and 'Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life' would present to a reader without any knowledge of what really happened a very positive message of the way the police dealt with the event after it had happened with assisting in the resuscitation of some people and helping to get those out who may have been in shock and needing help to get away from the devastation. This article would clearly have shown the police force in a good light after Hillsborough especially after the 'Operation Countryman' reports that had been revealed a few years before. The role the police really played was clearly covered up because the government would have known that the police standing with the people would have been horribly low with the harsh difficulties the force was facing throughout that decade and the British people would have been hugely criticism of any move the police would make in the future, they would no longer be trusted.