Why is The Sun boycotted in Liverpool?

This is a question that quite often appears on Liverpool forums as fans new to the club hear how "The Sun" newspaper is disliked, but are a little cautious to ask why.

The reasons are related to the issues of "The Sun" that came out after the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Fifteen years have passed and so it is understandable if some new fans did not know about "The Sun" and what it did to Liverpool FC. Some current fans would not have even been born back then.

I've just come across a website, not affiliated to Liverpool FC or the families of the victims, which tries to explain matters in a fairly concise manner. This is a free Encyclopedia site called "Wikipedia". I urge any new fans (or for that matter older fans) to have a read of this article: The Hillsborough Disaster.